Thread: AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down
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Old June 9th 09, 06:50 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr,sbcglobal.disgard
Sam Spade
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Default AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down
wrote:
Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to continue
reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party
vendors.

Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.


Moderated Usenet groups are living on borrowed time. Web-based forums,
many of which use software such as vBulletin, seem to be where it's all
going.

I suspect ISP administrators look at all the obscene trash and
name-calling that goes on in unmoderated Usenet groups, and conclude,
"Why should be serve as a portal to this trash?"