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.
