ATT Killing Usenet Newsgroup service

[Potemkin]

Old Skool is dying. :(

news-support@sbcglobal.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.

> Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.

[A.T. Hagan]

About once a year or so I get the urge to cruise Usenet again. Takes me about an hour to remember why I stopped using it years ago.

.....Alan.

[flourbug]

You need hip boots to wade through the spam. Then, there's nothing there.