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AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down
You can set up a group on Facebook, and people can do OPs, new threads,
pictures. One of our OS members just set one up for the society. I'm not used to it yet, but it seems easy enough to work with. Diana "K Barrett" wrote in message ... "tenman" wrote in message ... dusty wrote: wrote in news:1244504412.19018_24496 @flph199.ffdc.sbc.com: And the AT&T thieves are not giving us a lower price for less service. I think AT&T should be sued for false advertising their $19.95 high speed internet service is NOT fast. Average speeds here in STL are 525 minutes to down load a move 44 minutes to download a video clip 15 or more minutes to download a 1 minute Youtube This is what you get with AT&T high speed $19.95 high speed service Latest from www.Speedtest .net Ping: 108 ms Download 0.19 Mb/s Upload 0.32 Mb/s AT&T rated Number 27 in Global Broadband speed but rated # 1 in the world for highest pricing I think the lesson here is, good intentions notwithstanding, it is at this point unrealistic to expect to rely on the availability of any of our current outlets (abpo, rgo, and Kye's two). I know several of us have begun using Flickr as an alternative. It has new pics posted notifications, pm availability, new comments and other activities notifications, and 'contact' lists to enable one to keep up with others' postings, etc. It does not have a general message forum, unfortunately. The AOS forum is working now, but it's so broken up into microforums there's no community there, either. And who knows when it'll go on hiatus again. Or disappear in a cost-cutting move. I am at a loss for anything to replace the newsgroups as they are, but I'm afraid we are all confronted by the fact that they are going away and there's not really anything to be done about it; alternative newsgroup readers don't really seem a viable option; several I've tried just don't work, and the sad fact is with so many cut out of newsgroups, there just isn't anything much on them anymore to try to follow anyway. I just posted something similar on the mystery group I read. I think Usenet is about done. I looked into Facebook. I really hate that idea but it might be the way to go. I looked at The Orchid Board, but again, its fragmented. Or maybe we just post via Garden Banter.uk, LOL!! K Barrett |
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