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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. |
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| Joe Six-Pack... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:30 am |
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On 2009-06-08, <news-support at (no spam) sbcglobal.net> <news-support at (no spam) sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Quote: Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.
Err... Not quite. It migrated to supernews/giganews also  |
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| Allen Kistler... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:16 pm |
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Darren Salt wrote:
Quote: I demand that Joe Six-Pack may or may not have written...
On 2009-06-08, <news-support at (no spam) sbcglobal.net> <news-support at (no spam) sbcglobal.net
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Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.
Err... Not quite. It migrated to supernews/giganews also :)
Globally visible, I think. And inappropriately multiposted (should have been
fewer copies, each one reasonably widely crossposted).
I wonder if sbcglobal.discard (as opposed to .disgard) was meant?
General cluelessness in the tech support of Usenet is probably one
reason SBC/ATT is dropping Usenet. On the (genuinely exclusive) SBC
groups, there's been limited conjecture that the typo in the one group
name means the message is a hoax. Meanwhile Bleachbot is blasting it
from existence wherever it can, since it's been posted to *every* group
the old Prodigy servers carry, not just sbcglobal.*. It's probably
legit, though. |
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| Keith Keller... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:26 pm |
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On 2009-06-09, Allen Kistler <ackistler at (no spam) oohay.moc> wrote:
Quote: Darren Salt wrote:
I wonder if sbcglobal.discard (as opposed to .disgard) was meant?
Someone in another group speculated that AT&T made an intentional typo,
on the thinking that many nntp servers will drop posts cross-posted to a
nonexistent group. But a) not all will, and b) there are better ways of
restricting the distribution of a post, especially if, like AT&T, you
have full control over the nntp servers where the post originates.
Quote: General cluelessness in the tech support of Usenet is probably one
reason SBC/ATT is dropping Usenet.
So, that begs the question of whether they're being intentionally
incompetent in posting their message, to justify shutting it down in the
name of inadequate support. ;-/
Quote: It's probably legit, though.
I, too, suspect it's legitimate:
http://my.att.net/newsgroup/s/s.dll
A mixed blessing for AT&T customers, perhaps? Now they can get a decent
nntp feed, or possibly even a decent ISP, instead of AT&T.
--keith
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| Bill Marcum... |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:54 am |
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On 2009-06-08, <news-support at (no spam) sbcglobal.net> <news-support at (no spam) sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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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.
Distributrion: internal
^SPELLING FAIL! |
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| Joe Six-Pack... |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:14 am |
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On 2009-06-09, Allen Kistler <ackistler at (no spam) oohay.moc> wrote:
Quote: Meanwhile Bleachbot is blasting it from existence wherever it can,
since it's been posted to *every* group the old Prodigy servers carry,
not just sbcglobal.*. It's probably legit, though.
There's been quite a bit of talk over in NANAE about AT&T and several
other consumer ISPs in the USA dropping NNTP. I think it's legit, and
also a vivid demonstration of why it's a good idea that AT&T is getting
out of NNTP service... |
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