Posted by user on June 10, 2009, 10:00 pm
Curbie wrote:
> Just got the following "post" form AT&T:
>
> "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."
>
> Apparently one of the ways they're getting their customers for pay for
> AT&T's recent acquisition of Bellsouth is charging the same money for
> less service by dropping newsgroups. Their "less (for us) is more"
> (for AT&T) business model will get me to drop their service.
>
> I'll try to get out here again when I get moved and situated, Thanks
> for all your help!
>
> Curbie
>
You don't need their access, it's free on news.x-privat.org
works great, I've never had a problem with it.
Posted by Curbie on June 10, 2009, 11:25 pm
>You don't need their access, it's free on news.x-privat.org
>works great, I've never had a problem with it.
Is that a web based or client service>
Curbie
Posted by user on June 10, 2009, 11:41 pm
Curbie wrote:
>> You don't need their access, it's free on news.x-privat.org
>> works great, I've never had a problem with it.
>
> Is that a web based or client service>
>
> Curbie
>
You set it up in your mail & newsgroups preferences, I use mozilla based
email ( Seamonkey). What are you using for email?
Posted by Jim Wilkins on June 11, 2009, 12:09 am
On Jun 10, 7:41pm, u...@domain.invalid wrote:
> Curbie wrote:
> >> You don't need their access, it's free on news.x-privat.org
> >> works great, I've never had a problem with it.
> > Is that a web based or client service>
> > Curbie
> You set it up in your mail & newsgroups preferences, I use mozilla based
> email ( Seamonkey). What are you using for email?
I've been using free Google Groups on a dialup connection for years.
Its only significant drawback is lack of filtering and killfiles, but
the idiots are obvious and easy to ignore. They require a gmail
account, which makes a good spam trap. For some odd reason it loads
nearly as fast at home as on the >2.5MB connection at work.
jsw
Posted by Curbie on June 11, 2009, 1:18 am
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
>I've been using free Google Groups on a dialup connection for years.
>Its only significant drawback is lack of filtering and killfiles, but
>the idiots are obvious and easy to ignore. They require a gmail
>account, which makes a good spam trap. For some odd reason it loads
>nearly as fast at home as on the >2.5MB connection at work.
>jsw
The only dial-up SP I know left out there is net-zero, any others?
Curbie
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> "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."
>
> Apparently one of the ways they're getting their customers for pay for
> AT&T's recent acquisition of Bellsouth is charging the same money for
> less service by dropping newsgroups. Their "less (for us) is more"
> (for AT&T) business model will get me to drop their service.
>
> I'll try to get out here again when I get moved and situated, Thanks
> for all your help!
>
> Curbie
>