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Barbecue (alt.food.barbecue) Discuss barbecue and grilling--southern style "low and slow" smoking of ribs, shoulders and briskets, as well as direct heat grilling of everything from burgers to salmon to vegetables. |
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This is the message I received from Verizon via email concerning
their plans to cut usenet service. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Service Advisory - Important Changes to Your Verizon Newsgroup Service Dear Verizon Online Customer, As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service. On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups using our Newsgroup service. comp.* humanities.* misc.* news.* rec.* sci.* soc.* talk.* More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available at: http://www.big-8.org/. This change will not affect your Internet access service. If you would like to subscribe to newsgroups other than those we offer, you will need to subscribe to a separate commercial news service. Please note that your use of any such service is still subject to our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. There are no changes required to your software, but you will need to unsubscribe from all Newsgroups other than the Big 8 hierarchies and the 0.verizon.* hierarchy noted above. The following link explains how to subscribe and unsubscribe in Outlook Express: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190 IMPORTANT: If you continue to subscribe to unsupported newsgroups, you may experience poor computer performance and slow throughput speeds. Failure to unsubscribe may also interfere with the functioning of the Verizon network or use of the network by other Verizon users, which is a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy. We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you in the future. Sincerely, Verizon Online ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ And this is my reply. All, but one of the addressees bounced "No such User". I haven't bothered to figure out which one worked but obviously at least one did get through. Reply purposely posted to AFB and ABF 'only'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~` X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: BCC: , , , , Message-ID: > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:09:34 -0400 From: Brick > User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Modification of Usenet service Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This has to rate as one of the great dirty tricks of all time. I personally am stuck in a package deal with Verizon, so it's neither convenient, economical or even easy to change my provider. So much for placing my trust in Verizon. In order to maintain contact with my internet friends, I will now have to subscribe to an additional service, incurring yet another monthly bill. Howard R. Bricker (813) 885-1530 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Howver one of the addresses did hit and I got a telephone reply from a Mrs Stoner on my answering machine. Here is my transcript of her telephone message. My name is Mrs. Stoner I'm calling from Verizon Esecutive Customer Relations. I'm calling to acknowledge receipt of your letter (email) to our CEO. I'd like to give you my direct number as I will be assisting you to get this resolved for you. My number is 212 321 8467 Please give me a call. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ I got another cryptic call after that, that sounded something like this; Mr name is Roger Fulbright ....online billing. Please give me a call back at 1-800-267-0682 X6080 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~` I have no idea what that last one might be about. I'll call them both back on Monday after I've had time to compose my reply. -- Brick(Youth is wasted on young people) |
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