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AT&T Dropping Usenet Netnews; Low-Cost Alternatives?

Posted by timothy on from the don't-want-to-perish-like-a-fading-horse dept.

franknagy writes "This announcement message has appeared in all the news groups on the AT&T/SBC News Server: '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.' So what free or low-cost alternatives are available for Netnews and the NNTP services for clients?"

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  1. Depends on what you think is important by davmoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use EasyNews to get my pr0...um...er...oh...make that 'I heard EasyNews is good'.

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  2. Re:Google Groups or Astraweb by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    What he meant was:

    Kibo can grep all of Usenet for his name much faster using Google.

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  3. Re:R.I.P. by computational+super · · Score: 5, Funny
    Post the question, and from a second account, post a completely bogus answer with extra dose of condescension

    Fortunately, that would never work here on Slashdot.

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  4. Re:Is it worth it anymore? by chill · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's when you reply to a string of earlier messages and place your reply on top, so that whoever reads will have no idea of the context.

    What's top posting?

    Let's all go into comp.lang.c and start top posting to threads. They LOVE IT when you do that.

    Should I do this instead?

    No, no, no. When trolling a programming forum, make damn sure you post in HTML-formatted text. If you can figure out how to include the <blink> tag, you could probably hear their heads explode from halfway around the world.

    If not, your best bet is to include code snippets in multiple languages, each using different tab-stops for indentation. Make frequent references in how this would be much easier in Java, unless posting to comp.lang.java, then post on how C# fixed it and is really Java done right.

    Oh, and make sure to quote a multi-page question fully and answer only with one sentence. They love that.

    Finally, big sigs with ASCII art and geek code blocks. The bigger the better. True masters have sigs bigger than their actual post.

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