Rogers Internet Customers say buh bye to usenet.

[Animalor]

Just f'ing lovely.

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 Usenet was one of the earliest forms of user discussion on the Internet, but today has largely been replaced by blogs, instant messaging, personal web pages and other tools.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.

Alternatives

To stay at the leading edge of new technology, we’ve introduced new and better ways to communicate – all available at no additional charge to Rogers Yahoo! customers:

Instant messaging
http://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/

Groups
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/

Personal web pages
http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/

Blogs
http://360.yahoo.com/

Photos
http://ca.photos.yahoo.com/

Customers with a continuing desire to read or post Usenet text messages or who wish to access Usenet binary groups can subscribe to third-party Usenet service providers such as Giganews (our supplier up until the point when we discontinue Usenet) who offer a full Usenet service on a paid basis: http://www.giganews.com/

Once again, thank you for your loyalty to Rogers and your continued business.

- Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet

[Winnow]

giganews for you!

Cox has usenet but I still go with giganews for the 70 day retention (vs maybe three days)

[Animalor]

I don't use it enough to be worth the giganews subscription. Just sucks when they do actually turf something that I used from time to time and don't really reduce my monthy fee because of it.

[Kelshara]

heh wonder how much RIAA paid them for that.

[Mr Bacon]

You have full access to yahoo messenger and blogs! omglucky