Re: AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down
garr...@ix.netcom.com
announcement instead of an email just to your customers, who are the
ones getting screwed?
I assume there will not be a decrease in their monthly rate.
Mike Van Pelt
They apparently thought the "Distributrion: internal" header
would prevent it from getting outside of AT&T. Like that guy
way back when who was testing the "create a newsgroup" program,
and thought he'd restriced "alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork"
to his own news server.
Oopsie.
It seems clear that the intent was that only that subset of
AT&T customers who read Usenet would see it. Actual results
.. could have been better.
Mike Roach
<m...@calweb.com> wrote:
>In article <fumv25talb7gpv94j...@4ax.com>,
> <garr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>Why did you feel it was necessary to spam all of usenet with this
>>announcement instead of an email just to your customers, who are the
>>ones getting screwed?
Some of us didn't see anything until your post, probably because someone
at AT&T saw that the original post got out and canceled it himself, or a
cancelbot canceled the original post.
>> I assume there will not be a decrease in their monthly rate.
>
>They apparently thought the "Distributrion: internal" header
>would prevent it from getting outside of AT&T. Like that guy
>way back when who was testing the "create a newsgroup" program,
>and thought he'd restriced "alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork"
>to his own news server.
>
>Oopsie.
>
>It seems clear that the intent was that only that subset of
>AT&T customers who read Usenet would see it. Actual results
>.. could have been better.
What was the intent (and whatever happened to) of all those consecutive
alt. groups that formed "ATT YOU WILL" in banner letters? Were those
only on Netcom's servers?
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That was a rhetorical question.
Hud Nordin
Who called this meeting?
In article <h0r2m4$a4k$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
Mike Roach <never...@panix.com.invalid> wrote:
>What was the intent (and whatever happened to) of all those consecutive
>alt. groups that formed "ATT YOU WILL" in banner letters? Were those
>only on Netcom's servers?
The Net Abuse FAQ
<http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html>
4.8) Hey, there's this (AT&T, Jerry Garcia, whatever) banner
message in the newsgroup descriptions!
We know, we know... It's a fairly common prank to add bunches of
newsgroups whose descriptions spell something out. Ask your local
news adminstrator to remove the whole lot.
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Hud Nordin <h...@panix.com> Silicon Valley
Aahz Maruch
>
>Who called this meeting?
Nobody, we're just bored and hanging out.
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David Arnstein
>In article <h0rf5l$bn1$1...@reader1.panix.com>, Hud Nordin <h...@panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>Who called this meeting?
>
>Nobody, we're just bored and hanging out.
Hi everyone! What's new?
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Mike Van Pelt
>
>Who called this meeting?
Some guy at AT&T, I think.
It's nice to see some of the old netcom crowd are still subscribed
to this group after all these years. My old m...@netcom.com address,
alas, finally went away when I dropped Earthlink.
Mike Peeler
Mike Van Pelt <m...@calweb.com> wrote:
> Hud Nordin <h...@panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, old netcommies.
> >
> > Who called this meeting?
>
> Some guy at AT&T, I think.
>
> It's nice to see some of the old netcom crowd are still subscribed
> to this group after all these years. My old m...@netcom.com address,
> alas, finally went away when I dropped Earthlink.
Toot! I mean, tweet. -mdp
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> Hello, old netcommies.
There're times when I think it would be more appropiate to call us
old netcommics.
Unless you're talking to the young ones, of course.
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>>Hello, old netcommies.
>>
>>Who called this meeting?
>
>Some guy at AT&T, I think.
>
>It's nice to see some of the old netcom crowd are still subscribed
>to this group after all these years.
And still of sound mind... or as close to it as might have been possible.
DD
HankVC
>
>Who called this meeting?
>
Hard to realize that it's 18 or 19 years ago that I signed up with
netcom. And nice to see that so many of the old netcommies are still
around.
Did anybody ever get that Scots terrier pup that Bob McRieger was
offering---and is the dog still around?
Hank
m a n @notnetcom.com Dallman Ross
> In article <4a315c06$0$5393$d36...@news.calweb.com>,
> Mike Van Pelt <m...@calweb.com> wrote:
>
> > Hud Nordin <h...@panix.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello, old netcommies.
> > >
> > > Who called this meeting?
> >
> > Some guy at AT&T, I think.
> >
> > It's nice to see some of the old netcom crowd are still subscribed
> > to this group after all these years. My old m...@netcom.com address,
> > alas, finally went away when I dropped Earthlink.
>
> Toot! I mean, tweet. -mdp
Tort!
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