Re: AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down
Jerry Vrooman
> 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.
>
> Distribution: AT&T Worldnet Usenet Netnews Servers
>
I guess it is time to find a new ISP. Does anybody know of a Linux
friendly dial-up service that has Usenet?
The Doctor
Roger Blake <rogbl...@iname10.com> wrote:
>On 2009-06-09, Jerry Vrooman <GVro...@NoSpam.att.net> wrote:
>> I guess it is time to find a new ISP. Does anybody know of a Linux
>> friendly dial-up service that has Usenet?
>
>
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> Roger Blake
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> "Obama dozed while people froze."
Where do you live?
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Jerry Vrooman
>> friendly dial-up service that has Usenet?
>
>
Thanks. It looks like an interesting project.
Moe Trin
<rNhXl.336917$4m1....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Jerry Vrooman
wrote:
>news-...@worldnet.att.net 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.
But I'm sure AT&T will increase the fees charged because of the
change in service.
>I guess it is time to find a new ISP. Does anybody know of a Linux
>friendly dial-up service that has Usenet?
Would have helped if you mentioned what part of what country. Your
headers say "NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.75.110.45" which backs out to
45.syracuse-01rh15-16rt.ny.dial-access.att.net - so I'm guessing
central New York state in the US. Can't think of the right keywords
to plug into a search engine - let me help:
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,410,000 for ISP New+York. (0.36 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 43,900 for ISP dial New+York. (0.31 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 43,900 for ISP dial New+York comparison. (0.23
seconds)
and the first one using that set of keywords is
Dialup Internet Access - ISP Dial Up Internet Service Providers
Select your next dial up ISP using our comparison of popular dial up
internet services. ... New York <B7> North Carolina <B7> North Dakota ... Use
our isp comparison service to find dialup access in your local area and
to compare the various ...
www.ezisp.info/dialup/ - Cached - Similar pages
Imagine what would happen if you looked at the rest of the first screen
of results - never mind the second or third.
Your second step after getting a list of ISPs would be to look for the
hostname 'news.isp.example.com' and see 1) if they have one, and 2) if
so, who is it. Most ISPs are contracting out to major news providers
such as newsguy, highwinds-media, giganews, and similar.
Regarding Linux friendly Ness - virtually none will claim to be able to
"support" Linux. Big surprise. However, I've yet to see an ISP
that did not work with Linux (well, some of the freebies like NetZero
excepted - but who wants mandatory advertisements with ALL of your
Internet activities). Their windoze support isn't much of an
improvement over their (lack of) Linux support. I'm sure you already
know the 'reboot/reinstall/reforat-and-reinstall' mantra.
Old guy
Bill Marcum
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Distributrion: internal
SPELLING FAIL! :)
John Hasler
> Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.
>
>Distributrion: internal
and writes:
> SPELLING FAIL! :)
And consequently they are spamming the world. Just as well that they are
leaving Usenet as they are clearly not competent to run a newsserver.
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John Hasler
jo...@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA