Re: AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down

<news-s...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:1244504412...@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. Yea right. Seem the internal memo, like most, jumped ship to the whole wide world! Raille

[ quoted text not captured ] Looks like I'll be kicked back to google groups come Monday. Yay Mondays! (ugh)

On Jun 13, 10:12 am, LSJ <vtes...@white-wolf.com> wrote: > Looks like I'll be kicked back to google groups come Monday. Yay Mondays! (ugh) Is anyone else using Aioe.org as a news server? It hasn't been working for me about a week now, and the web page says, ironically, "USENET server is fully working again". -Peter

[ quoted text not captured ] I've jumped ship from aioe.org (sudden, unannounced loss of service is Not Good in my book), and am currently using news.motzarella.org. Positive: It has all the groups and a big backlog, several months worth. Negative: Every now and then there are service outages. They are annoyingly frequent, but fortunately last for a very short while. HG

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:16:27 -0700 (PDT), Peter D Bakija wrote: >> Looks like I'll be kicked back to google groups come Monday. Yay Mondays! (ugh) >Is anyone else using Aioe.org as a news server? It hasn't been working >for me about a week now, and the web page says, ironically, "USENET >server is fully working again". I use Forte's Agent newsreader software, and their 2.95 a month service. I've had no complaints. http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php Carpe noctem. The Lasombra http://www.TheLasombra.com Your best source of V:TES information. Now also selling boxes and individual cards.

Janne H�gglund <h...@iki.fi> wrote: > I've jumped ship from aioe.org (sudden, unannounced loss of service is Not > Good in my book), and am currently using news.motzarella.org. Same here. I use motzarella and good old tin newsreader.

On Jun 13, 10:38 am, h...@iki.fi (Janne Hägglund) wrote: > I've jumped ship from aioe.org (sudden, unannounced loss of service is Not > Good in my book), and am currently using news.motzarella.org. Huh. I was using that. And then went to aioe.org. And am trying news.motzarella.org, but I can't get it to connect. And I can't find a website with info. You have somewhere good to check? Thanks! -Peter

Peter D Bakija <pd...@lightlink.com> writes: [ quoted text not captured ] The same address, news.motzarella.org, provides both news and the web site. Point your browser there. And if I recall correctly, the site requires registration before they start feeding you news, but I don't remember the technical details. Hope I said something useful. HG

h...@iki.fi (Janne Hägglund) writes: [ quoted text not captured ] Ah yes, the site requires you to register, and then to configure your newsreader to send your username and password when it's connecting. http://news.motzarella.org/index.php?showpage=faq That's probably where your problem was. HG

In article <m33aa4o...@nothung.homelinux.net>, h...@iki.fi (Janne Hägglund) wrote: > Ah yes, the site requires you to register, and then to configure your > newsreader to send your username and password when it's connecting. > > http://news.motzarella.org/index.php?showpage=faq > > That's probably where your problem was. Heh--thanks! I was apparently already registered, and just forgot my password. All works now. Thanks again! Peter D Bakija pd...@lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com/pdb6/vtes.html "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?" -Gaff

LSJ wrote: > Raille 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. >> >>> Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers. >> >> Yea right. >> >> Seem the internal memo, like most, jumped ship to the whole wide >> world! > > Looks like I'll be kicked back to google groups come Monday. > Yay Mondays! (ugh) Scott, I have been using aioe.org for a backup to my cox.net Usenet, and aioe.org works flawlessly. They even filter out those garbage sales posts. I'd suggest you try it before you use Google "groups" crap! Here are a few others I've heard about over the years: Albasani http://albasani.net/index.html.en (good) CNNTP http://www.cnntp.org/cnntp ETT http://news.ett.com.ua/ Motzarella http://motzarella.org/ (good) Solani http://news.solani.org/ Teranews http://www.teranews.com/ Tornevall http://news.tornevall.net/ Kevin M., Prince of Las Vegas "Know your enemy and know yourself; in one-thousand battles you shall never be in peril." -- Sun Tzu, *The Art of War* "Contentment...Complacency...Catastrophe!" -- Joseph Chevalier Please visit VTESville daily! http://vtesville.myminicity.com/

[ quoted text not captured ] Thanks. I switched over to motzarella.