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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'..."


ATT has just installed fiber in the neighborhood. Guy come by yesterday to
inform me of this, and maybe I would like DSL from them. Get Fiber for DSL.
He did not know about newsgroups or dropping them. Informed him to make a
note that no way would I go with such a 1/2 assed concern. Had to tell him
newsgroups were the internet before the web.