Apparently it's moving over to alt.cellular.attws. You really can't
change the name of a group, you just create a new one and the old one
slowly becomes unused. Since alt.cellular.attws is already in existence,
it just made sense to use it.
[Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
non-spam posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going
away, and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding
AT&T's Wireless Service.]
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:46671134$0$27198
$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
> Fred wrote:
>> The subject says it all
>
> Apparently it's moving over to alt.cellular.attws. You really can't
> change the name of a group, you just create a new one and the old one
> slowly becomes unused. Since alt.cellular.attws is already in existence,
> it just made sense to use it.
>
>
> [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
> non-spam posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going
> away, and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding
> AT&T's Wireless Service.]
When I got on this afternoon- 51 new posts in a.c.cingular, 7 new posts in
a.c.attws. Nothing is moving, although the threads are much more
unreadable due to your selective cross-posting.
Scott wrote:
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:46671134$0$27198
> $742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
>
>> Fred wrote:
>>> The subject says it all
>> Apparently it's moving over to alt.cellular.attws. You really can't
>> change the name of a group, you just create a new one and the old one
>> slowly becomes unused. Since alt.cellular.attws is already in existence,
>> it just made sense to use it.
>>
>>
>> [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
>> non-spam posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going
>> away, and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding
>> AT&T's Wireless Service.]
>
> When I got on this afternoon- 51 new posts in a.c.cingular, 7 new posts in
> a.c.attws. Nothing is moving, although the threads are much more
> unreadable due to your selective cross-posting.
It takes a while for the migration. It took many months for
alt.cellular.t-mobile to displace alt.cellular.carriers.gsm.voicestream.
I certainly hope it does not move back to the old name. Perhaps I am a
stickler but AWS is an acronym for a company that doesn't exist any longer.
I can see why we wouldn't want just ATT as the whole company is much to
broad for this group. AT&T is having their wireless salespeople put "AT&T
Mobility" on their business cards. I guess that would be a good compromise.
Fred
"Scott" <how.do@you.do> wrote in message
news:m8udnfxdyc6y3vrbnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@adelphia.com ...
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:46671134$0$27198
> $742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
>
>> Fred wrote:
>>> The subject says it all
>>
>> Apparently it's moving over to alt.cellular.attws. You really can't
>> change the name of a group, you just create a new one and the old one
>> slowly becomes unused. Since alt.cellular.attws is already in existence,
>> it just made sense to use it.
>>
>>
>> [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
>> non-spam posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going
>> away, and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding
>> AT&T's Wireless Service.]
>
> When I got on this afternoon- 51 new posts in a.c.cingular, 7 new posts in
> a.c.attws. Nothing is moving, although the threads are much more
> unreadable due to your selective cross-posting.
I don't know if it's just that they don't have nearly as many subscribers as
AT&T or Verizon but there is still comparatively very little traffic on the
t-mobile group.
Fred
"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:46674b0e$0$27202$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> Scott wrote:
>> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:46671134$0$27198
>> $742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
>>
>>> Fred wrote:
>>>> The subject says it all
>>> Apparently it's moving over to alt.cellular.attws. You really can't
>>> change the name of a group, you just create a new one and the old one
>>> slowly becomes unused. Since alt.cellular.attws is already in existence,
>>> it just made sense to use it.
>>>
>>>
>>> [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
>>> non-spam posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going
>>> away, and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding
>>> AT&T's Wireless Service.]
>>
>> When I got on this afternoon- 51 new posts in a.c.cingular, 7 new posts
>> in a.c.attws. Nothing is moving, although the threads are much more
>> unreadable due to your selective cross-posting.
>
> It takes a while for the migration. It took many months for
> alt.cellular.t-mobile to displace alt.cellular.carriers.gsm.voicestream.
In article <_sJ9i.92854$vE1.29712@newsfe24.lga>, "Fred" <none@abc.com>
wrote:
> I certainly hope it does not move back to the old name. Perhaps I am a
> stickler but AWS is an acronym for a company that doesn't exist any longer.
> I can see why we wouldn't want just ATT as the whole company is much to
> broad for this group. AT&T is having their wireless salespeople put "AT&T
> Mobility" on their business cards. I guess that would be a good compromise.
>
Nothing "moves" unless a lot of people make it happen.
There are many newsgroups, though named for one specific thing, attract
a lot of people with varied inquiries and responses.
If this group has a life, more power to it.
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in
news:46674b0e$0$27202$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
> Scott wrote:
>> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:46671134$0$27198
>> $742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
>>
>>> Fred wrote:
>>>> The subject says it all
>>> Apparently it's moving over to alt.cellular.attws. You really can't
>>> change the name of a group, you just create a new one and the old
>>> one slowly becomes unused. Since alt.cellular.attws is already in
>>> existence, it just made sense to use it.
>>>
>>>
>>> [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
>>> non-spam posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is
>>> going away, and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts
>>> regarding AT&T's Wireless Service.]
>>
>> When I got on this afternoon- 51 new posts in a.c.cingular, 7 new
>> posts in a.c.attws. Nothing is moving, although the threads are much
>> more unreadable due to your selective cross-posting.
>
> It takes a while for the migration. It took many months for
> alt.cellular.t-mobile to displace
> alt.cellular.carriers.gsm.voicestream.
>
Apples and oranges.
The only delay in that migration was due to a.c.t-mobile being a brand new
group and the usual delay in being picked up by the major news servers.
Once Giganews and the other big players listed the group, migration
happened in less than two weeks and not many months.
That same obstacle does not exist in this case- a.c.attws has been around
for years and is carried on all of the major news servers for quite a
while.
The T-Mobile mogration was delayed because of technology hurdles. This
migration is delayed because nobody but you believes in it. 95% of the
content on A.c.attws is not original content, but material you are draggin
over from A.c.cingular. All new threads are starting in the Cingular
group.
Will this group's name be changing? Isso to what?
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