The AT&T news server farm is shutting down "about July 15th." For those unlucky
enough to have to deal with AT&T motzarella.org provides free text-only
newsgroups for those who want to use a newsclient rather than Google Groups,
etc.

And as an aside, this is just one more example of why AT&T sucks...and now, the
Obama Administration is tapping none other than Mr. "I don't know nuthin' 'bout
makin' no cars." Ed half-Whitacre, Jr. to - are you ready? - fix GM...

Sheesh,
R
....but on the, um, "positive" side, he's got a rosy outlook - "If I can royally
screw folks with telecom, surely I can do it with automotive...why, shucks, I'll
have this company back to ****ing its vict...er, 'customers' faster than you can
say 'Yugo'..."