Re: AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down

[Marshall Price]

newsmaster@bellsouth.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.
>
> http://support.att.net/usenet
>
>
> Distribution: AT&T SouthEast Newsgroups Servers

Thank you very much for the heads-up.  Being a new AT&T user, I learned 
about this when I first set up my newsreader (Thunderbird, for which you 
give no instructions online) for your NNTP server, but there are tens of 
thousands of AT&T users, I'm sure, who are unaware of your plans and 
will either be shut off abruptly, or will never know of the existence of 
Usenet.

Usenet is so important that I'm sure it will never die, but it may be a 
long time before it becomes very popular.

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Marshall Price of Miami
marshallprice@att.net
http://marshallprice.wordpress.com