Rogers sucks

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Dear Valued Customer

Please be advised that Rogers is discontinuing its Usenet service as of
December 15, 2005.

Internet technology is constantly changing. Usenet was one of the
earliest forms of user discussion on the Internet, but today has
largely been replaced by blogs, instant messaging, personal web pages
and other tools. As a result, fewer and fewer people are accessing
Usenet.

Therefore, Rogers has decided to stop providing Usenet service to
Rogers Yahoo! customers.


What do you think ? Do you agree this sucks ? Yes , No or don't care ?
 
This is true. I just called Customer Service and they confirmed. There may
be a bit of a lag time from the 15th where for a while you'll be able to
read/post msgs, but 2 customer service agents confirmed this is the case.

Now, one did confirm he's received a lot of calls in protest, so if you're a
Rogers customer and this is worth it to you, you can call also with a
complaint.

Sad news. I'm going to still be looking around for a new ISP, that's for
sure.

Rogers is more and more like Bell, with its "it's my way, or the highway"
mentality.

Good luck.
 
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Dear Valued Customer

Please be advised that Rogers is discontinuing its Usenet service as
of December 15, 2005.

Internet technology is constantly changing. Usenet was one of the
earliest forms of user discussion on the Internet, but today has
largely been replaced by blogs, instant messaging, personal web pages
and other tools. As a result, fewer and fewer people are accessing
Usenet.

Therefore, Rogers has decided to stop providing Usenet service to
Rogers Yahoo! customers.


What do you think ? Do you agree this sucks ? Yes , No or don't care ?
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Personally, I don't do much in usenet outside of the Microsoft groups, and
use msnews.microsoft.com for that anyway.
If you have a need for other groups, you can sign up with someone else to
provide the feed.
 
Dear Valued Customer

Please be advised that Rogers is discontinuing its Usenet service as of
December 15, 2005.

Internet technology is constantly changing. Usenet was one of the
earliest forms of user discussion on the Internet, but today has
largely been replaced by blogs, instant messaging, personal web pages
and other tools. As a result, fewer and fewer people are accessing
Usenet.

Therefore, Rogers has decided to stop providing Usenet service to
Rogers Yahoo! customers.


What do you think ? Do you agree this sucks ? Yes , No or don't care ?
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Can you explain the relevance to Outlook?

Perhaps you should go somewhere relevant.
 
Hi ... Yes I could look else where but , Why should I have to pay for
it though ? With my ISP it comes free with my service that I am already
paiding for ... Its ok, One day I will leave Rogers altogether and
never look back , I already done it with TV services , Its just of
matter of time when I will cut off Rogers internet services as well , I
think this thread should of been place in a more advertise or whatever
newsgroup forum , maybe like the windows xp general , Yeah I think I
will try there as well ....
 
StargateFanFromWork said:
Sad news. I'm going to still be looking around for a new ISP, that's
for sure.
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There are free NNTP servers available, so you don't really need Rogers'
offering of Usenet. You can also use Google Groups, if you don't mind a web
interface (which appears to be what you're using).
 
Dear Valued Customer

Please be advised that Rogers is discontinuing its Usenet service as of
December 15, 2005.

Internet technology is constantly changing. Usenet was one of the
earliest forms of user discussion on the Internet, but today has
largely been replaced by blogs, instant messaging, personal web pages
and other tools. As a result, fewer and fewer people are accessing
Usenet.

Therefore, Rogers has decided to stop providing Usenet service to
Rogers Yahoo! customers.


What do you think ? Do you agree this sucks ? Yes , No or don't care ?
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And what the hell does that have to do with Outlook? NOTHING!

Who cares if Rogers or any other ISP drops their NNTP server? Use Microsoft
own free and publicly accessible NNTP server to post *relevant* posts to
microsoft.* newsgroups.

Fewer and fewer people are accessing the Usenet? Yeah, right, and that is
why Microsoft provides a free NNTP server, and why Google Groups continues,
and why forums are added a Usenet gateways to enlarge their communities.
Sure would be nice if the statement were true since then maybe to more
educated and those with more initiative (to research their problems before
posting) would be the ones left on Usenet. Going back to its roots (by
eliminating the boobs) is a bad thing?
 
Brian Tillman said:
There are free NNTP servers available, so you don't really need Rogers'
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The come and go. Free servers don't last long.
offering of Usenet. You can also use Google Groups, if you don't mind a
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web

Thanks. I use OE at work because I don't have Agent here and can't install.
But you see, I go home and save all my posts in Agent so I'm still okay
(hence my two usernames). I'm looking for a new ISP since I couldn't live
without usenet. I hate forums even though I belong to quite a few as well
as to yahoo groups. But I can do that because I use the freeware YahooPops!
that pulls my messages from the yahoo server and sends them to me at home.
So that makes a web interface somewhat more bearable. But my preference has
been, and always will be, Usenet via a dedicated newsreader.
interface (which appears to be what you're using).
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Not quite, but it might appear that way <g>.

Thanks!
 
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