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From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...@verizon.net>
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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:40:09 GMT
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Lawrence Akutagawa wrote:
> <news-supp...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
> news:1244504405.2924_151@flph199.ffdc.sbc.com...
>> 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.
>>
>> Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.
>>
> Being an AT&T customer and a reader of various newgroups, please provide 
> some information of such third-party vendors.  Thank you. 
> 
> 
I do not know about AT&T, but Verizon cut off all Usenet except for the "big 
8" some time ago. They did not reduce the rates to reflect the reduction in 
service. I bet they did not reduce your rates to compensate for removing a 
service that could be reasonably expected in a standard ISP contract.

Here is one alternate provider. I have not used them, but I may.

http://newsguy.com/overview.htm

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