Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers

Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.

Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the TW president:

Barbara Burroughs
phone 203-351-2281

email:

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Usenet wrote:
Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.

Really? That is the best news since September 1993.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

jue

Usenet wrote:
Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.

So how's that a bad thing????

In message , Stuffed Crust
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Dev/Null wrote:
Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.
So how's that a bad thing????

Those of us who actually *use* the RoadRunner usenet servers (with real
NNTP clients) are screwed, especially when you consider they didn't
actually notify their customers of this change.


Still don't see how it s a bad thing.

Getting the aol users of Usenet is nothing but good.

September 1993 is when AOL == Arse-holes On Line

Generally not a lot has changed. We may loose a few good people but get
rid of thousands of idiots.



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Chris H wrote:
Those of us who actually *use* the RoadRunner usenet servers (with real
NNTP clients) are screwed, especially when you consider they didn't
actually notify their customers of this change.

Still don't see how it s a bad thing.

Getting the aol users of Usenet is nothing but good.

AOL discontinued its usenet access more than three years ago. See:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01...ff_newsgroups/

Generally not a lot has changed. We may loose a few good people but get
rid of thousands of idiots.

The only folks left on usenet are the old fogeys. Like any group of old
fogeys, there are those 'few good people' and the 'senile old farts'..
C'est la vie.

Granted, we still have the spambots running amok trying to sell crap to
the endless-summer hordes, but those hordes have long since moved on to
blingier crap.

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