I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just read
the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services very soon.
That sucks. But so does growing old in general. Still, quite often it beats
the alternative.

To all of those that I have chatted with over the years and whom I may never
chat again, thanks. It's been fun.

Ed Cregger

Ed Cregger wrote in :
I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just read
the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services very soon.
That sucks. But so does growing old in general. Still, quite often it beats
the alternative.

To all of those that I have chatted with over the years and whom I may never
chat again, thanks. It's been fun.

there are other usenet servers. ask by e-mail.

--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO

Tired old sysadmin

Ed Cregger wrote:
I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just read
the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services very soon.
That sucks. But so does growing old in general. Still, quite often it beats
the alternative.

To all of those that I have chatted with over the years and whom I may never
chat again, thanks. It's been fun.

Ed Cregger



www.dslextreme.com

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:30:33 -0700, dave wrote:

Ed Cregger wrote:
I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just read
the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services very soon.
That sucks. But so does growing old in general. Still, quite often it beats
the alternative.

To all of those that I have chatted with over the years and whom I may never
chat again, thanks. It's been fun.

Ed Cregger



www.dslextreme.com

This is a trend in ISPs. For the past year I've used a free service
called Tera News after my ISP cut this access. The ISPs for the most
part didn't actually run the service but contracted with a service
such as Giganews. It is possible to get access through Giganews as
and individual, but they do have fees. The free service has some
daily limits but I've never exceeded the daily limit for text based
things. If you are into binaries in a big way, they do offer paid
services with greater downloading quantities. There are several of
these services.

Because of the Spam content on many groups, Usenet popularity is down.
Many groups have gone to moderated services on things like Yahoo
groups where they is a little more control (sometimes) on the kook
factor; or, they have private websites actually owned by a
participating member and often moderated by them.

Jon W3JT

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:46:38 -0400, "Ed Cregger"
wrote:

I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just read
the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services very soon.
That sucks. But so does growing old in general. Still, quite often it beats
the alternative.

To all of those that I have chatted with over the years and whom I may never
chat again, thanks. It's been fun.

Ed Cregger

I use this:
http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php

$2.95 per month gets 12G download per month... that is a lot of data!
It is less expensive than a magazine subscription

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:46:38 -0400, Ed Cregger wrote:
I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just
read the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services
very soon.

I sense that you don't know an awful lot about usenet -- since you've
multi-posted this in gawd knows how many ng's.

Your ISP is merely a _connection_ to the internet (and all it's
protocols.) Any "services" it provides beyond that are just 'teasers'
to get folks to sign up. Sadly, as with so many things America, they
are dumbing down the services they provide to cater to the klewless.

You have total freedom to avail yourself of _ALL_ the internet has to
offer once you're connected.

I use www.individual.net/ for usenet -- have done so for over 10 years
and through 3 different ISP's. WFM.

I use virtually _nothing_ of my ISP's services -- not DNS, not email,
not usenet... Once connected to the internet I have *the entire world*
across which to locate free or reasonably priced services.

"Spamm Trappe" wrote in message
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:46:38 -0400, Ed Cregger wrote:
I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just
read the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services
very soon.

I sense that you don't know an awful lot about usenet -- since you've
multi-posted this in gawd knows how many ng's.

Your ISP is merely a _connection_ to the internet (and all it's
protocols.) Any "services" it provides beyond that are just 'teasers'
to get folks to sign up. Sadly, as with so many things America, they
are dumbing down the services they provide to cater to the klewless.

You have total freedom to avail yourself of _ALL_ the internet has to
offer once you're connected.

I use www.individual.net/ for usenet -- have done so for over 10 years
and through 3 different ISP's. WFM.

I use virtually _nothing_ of my ISP's services -- not DNS, not email,
not usenet... Once connected to the internet I have *the entire world*
across which to locate free or reasonably priced services.


Is your real name Squidward?

Ed Cregger

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Ed Cregger wrote:

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:46:38 -0400
From: Ed Cregger
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment
Subject: The End is Near...

I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just read
the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services very soon.
That sucks. But so does growing old in general. Still, quite often it beats
the alternative.

To all of those that I have chatted with over the years and whom I may never
chat again, thanks. It's been fun.

Ed Cregger




There are lots of alternatives.

Use your web browser and go to;

http://groups.google.com


I think yahoo has usenet access, too.

Also use google (or any search engine) and search on "newsgroups access"

You can purchase subscriptions to unix shell accounts at many ISPs and
learn a bit of unix, and use a unix email-newgroup client (there are many,
but PINE is very easy to learn), and you also beat all the email carried
viruses, too, because you read your email in a unix environment from your
windows computer (or mac) by opening a telnet window.

You can get an almost free shell account at:

http://freeshell.org or //sdf.lonestar.org

but you have to learn a few things, too, and pay one buck activation fee
and he likes a lifetime membership fee of $36 for full priviledges.

www.mv.com

and

www.panix.com

also have unix shell accounts with full unix NG access, and the usual
clients.

"Stray Dog" wrote in message
.org...

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Ed Cregger wrote:

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:46:38 -0400
From: Ed Cregger
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment
Subject: The End is Near...

I've been using usenet for about 15 years with various names. I just read
the announcement from AT&T that they are ending usenet services very
soon.
That sucks. But so does growing old in general. Still, quite often it
beats
the alternative.

To all of those that I have chatted with over the years and whom I may
never
chat again, thanks. It's been fun.

Ed Cregger




There are lots of alternatives.

Use your web browser and go to;

http://groups.google.com


I think yahoo has usenet access, too.

Also use google (or any search engine) and search on "newsgroups access"

You can purchase subscriptions to unix shell accounts at many ISPs and
learn a bit of unix, and use a unix email-newgroup client (there are many,
but PINE is very easy to learn), and you also beat all the email carried
viruses, too, because you read your email in a unix environment from your
windows computer (or mac) by opening a telnet window.

You can get an almost free shell account at:

http://freeshell.org or //sdf.lonestar.org

but you have to learn a few things, too, and pay one buck activation fee
and he likes a lifetime membership fee of $36 for full priviledges.

www.mv.com

and

www.panix.com

also have unix shell accounts with full unix NG access, and the usual
clients.


Thanks to you and everyone else that answered. I don't know what I was
thinking when I made the original post. Musta been a senior moment, but with
all of the information that has been posted, I'll still be on the
newsgroups.

73 everyone.

Ed, AJ4PJ