AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down

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.

<news-support@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1244504412.46553_25846@flph199.ffdc.sbc.com.. .
>
> 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.


First the binary groups, now no Usenet at all? Can anyone recommend another
DSL provider that can be depended on?

* news-support@sbcglobal.net wrote, On 6/8/2009 16:40:
> 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.
>

I'm using Thunderbird and, amongst other newsgroup servers,
News.sf.sbcglobal.net where there are about 10 subscriptions.

Any suggestions as to another good "catch-all" server to use? Or is
it time to dump ATT broadband?
Miles

* news-support@sbcglobal.net wrote, On 6/8/2009 16:40:
> 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.
>

I've checked twice with 2 different 2nd level techs at ATT and they
didn't know of this and couldn't find anything in their computers.

I told them that I must hear from ATT no later than Monday to ensure
there's time to set up another news service -- all of those msgs I've
changed to "important" etc will be gone unless they're copied out to a
file and I'm talking about 13 newsgroups. Perhaps no time like the
present to dump ATT, but it's a month or two too soon for me.

* Evan Platt wrote, On 6/15/2009 11:17:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:03:13 -0700, Miles
> <mileschap@REMOVEMEpacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> I've checked twice with 2 different 2nd level techs at ATT and they
>> didn't know of this and couldn't find anything in their computers.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's gonna happen. We'll know in - what, a few weeks?
>
>> I told them that I must hear from ATT no later than Monday to ensure
>> there's time to set up another news service -- all of those msgs I've
>> changed to "important" etc will be gone unless they're copied out to a
>> file and I'm talking about 13 newsgroups. Perhaps no time like the
>> present to dump ATT, but it's a month or two too soon for me.
>
> I don't see why that should be an issue. Looks like you use Mozilla
> Thunderbird? Don't know how it functions, but I've changed news
> servers many times with Agent, and everything is preserved - old
> messages kept, their statuses, etc.

That's good news! Thought I would need to unsubscribe and subscribe
to a new newsgroup, hence all would be lost with the old subscription.
How do you go about preservation when a NG is cancelled?

* news-support@sbcglobal.net wrote, On 6/8/2009 16:40:
> 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.
>

Received the official word email today -- and 2nd level techs didn't
know of it a week ago! Quote:


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Important Updates to Your AT&T Internet Service

Dear AT&T Internet Service Member:

Our records indicate that you have accessed our Usenet newsgroup
feature in the past 90 days. We are writing to inform you that this
feature will be available through July 15. On or around July 15, 2009
we will no longer provide access to the Usenet service. If you wish to
continue accessing Usenet newsgroups, please be aware that many Usenet
services are available for a subscription fee.


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