Why on gods green earth would anyone want AOL anyways? They censure
what internet you get to see...they block sites they deem
inappropriate.
So I ask again why??
On 21 Jan 2005 05:28:57 GMT, agmliteforu@aol.comatose (Animated GIF
Man) wrote:
>On 21 Jan 2005, at 00:50:27 GMT,
>tymedwn1st@aol.comPEARLS (TyMeDwn1st)
><20050120195027.08619.00000120@mb-m06.aol.com>
>wrote in <b>aol.newsgroups.help</b>:
>
>>
>> I emailed my Sooper Secret Well Connected AOL Source
>> (who works deep within AOL's HQ in Virginia) to ask about the
>> rumored crisis or hoax, as the case might be.
>>
>> My source went straight to the people who would know about
>> this, and the answer is yes, the posting is legitimate, the rumor
>> is not a rumor, and AOL will be discontinuing newsgroup access
>> in the not-too-distant future.
>>
>> --
>> Ty
>>
>
>I got a second confirmation today also. The 'rumor' is no longer.
>What has long passed for USENET newsgroups 'support' on AOL
>[ability to read some NG posts some of the time, (if at all) on AOL]
>will fairly quickly be coming to an 'end'...
>
>ALL AOL members *can* still read from + post to USENET NGs
>at: http://groups.google.com/ [but not to any 'internal' AOL NGs].
>The 'notice' being sent out in PFC offline downloads] claims that
>dial-up users will lose all ability to read NGs, but as far as I know
>news.individual.net accounts work over dial-up connections on any
>3rd party news reader of choice; so, yes, ALL AOL users can still
>read + post to at least some newsgroups at no extra cost.
>
>So far, the only real notice AOL members are getting in way of
>a 'heads up' to tell them NGs are about to 'die' on AOL is during
>'Auto-AOL' ["Flash Session" for the die-hard AOL-ers] like this:
>http://members.aol.com/AGMLiteForU/aol_ng_end-01.jpg
>
>which show upat Keyword:Offline Reader [only] looking like:
>http://members.aol.com/AGMLiteForU/aol_ng_end-02.jpg
>
>Identical messages appear to be posted by AOL screenname:
>'BoardsAdmin@aol.com' [a 'faked' SN (or at least one that will
>not receive any email)] and were written on December 6th, 2004
>each of which read as follows:
>http://members.aol.com/AGMLiteForU/aol_ng_end-03.jpg
>
>AOL newsgroups reading members are encouraged at this time
>to find an alternate news server or news reader/ reading method
>while there is still time + to subscribe to + read: alt.aol.tricks NG,
>where I and I'm sure many other very long time AOL members
>will continue to try to help newer AOL member USENET readers
>to find their way around the internet or the AOL software interface.
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