Subj : NEWS/BBS Question
To   : All
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Dec 28 2014 12:42 pm

Howdy general message postal service, grin!

Yes, I know that the IT OS/2 Newsgroup is posted into the Fido BBS OS/2 groups 
here as copy too.  Thus I do know that someone who has access to the OS/2 News 
Groups has access to them.

Yes, I had access to all of them via my Suddenlink IT service.  And very 
frankly, Suddenlink has been a TREASURE of a service to me for many years here 
in the TAMU College Station and Bryan, Texas area with their cable service.  
Which is now even going heavily forward to fiber optic service and WAY upward 
to 50GB service!  I have actually worked very closely with them on security 
research and other things.  So the next comment is not at all a negative remark 
on them.

Recently for internal reasons that I do have contact about, Suddenlink dropped 
their actual Internal News Group service for their users.  You can still use 
their technology to connect to whatever newsgroup you seem to want. 
 However they don't perform as a Newsgroup service group now.  Bye-bye went my 
entire OS/2 Newsgroup Access although I still have complete access to the 
actual Firefox and Seamonkey OS/2 development operations with no problem for 
example.

Can anyone here tell ne where I can connect to a complete connection server 
site for the OS/2 groups?  Hopefully for free?  From what I think may be 
correct, it looks like the entire OS/2 Newsgroup operation may be available 
with access to the MIT Technology school.  But they focus on MIT student 
interface support.  Which I think I could subscribe to as an 'external' 
connection to that source.  However before I go there, is there anyone here 
that can comment here?  For all those years back to even the start of OS/2 with 
IBM I was a completely paid developer support operation with them. However OS/2 
has spun down in the dwindle of all that for what is 'normally' still related 
to OS/2 with IBM as I think I understand things.

Yes, this still can be a Fido BBS issue as sometimes very important OS/2 
comments that are present in the 'formal' developers news areas are of serious 
value as copied to the Fido BBS operations.  So I think this is a valid subject 
when posted here.

Thanks!

Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100 in College Station, Texas.

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