Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or some
other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans if your
ISP pulls the plug on usenet?

"Silver Surfer" <SilverSurfer@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:u9WdnRpqHMv-ekvVnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
> Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
> this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or
> some other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans if
> your ISP pulls the plug on usenet?
Obviously, you vote out the current crop of idiots running the government.
The FCC commissioner has an IQ that barely tops his apparent age (teens).

Silver Surfer wrote:
> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
> Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
> this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or
> some other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans
> if your ISP pulls the plug on usenet?

Happened to me with Road Runner several months ago. I switched to
"motzarella.org". Free service and very happy with it.

Larry

"Silver Surfer" <SilverSurfer@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:u9WdnRpqHMv-ekvVnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
> Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
> this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or
> some other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans if
> your ISP pulls the plug on usenet?

My ISP is Rogers, and they cut out Newsgroups a year or so ago. I was
royally ticked, but I ended up switching to Giganews (because they offered a
discount to Rogers customers, because Giganews was the carrier Rogers used).
You should check to see if anyone is offering a discount for Comcast
customers. As for the reliability of Giganews, I haven't had any problems,
as long as the credit card works properly. You can also set it up to your
PayPal account too.

"maxell" <2hd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Silver Surfer" <SilverSurfer@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:u9WdnRpqHMv-ekvVnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
>> Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
>> this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or
>> some other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans
>> if your ISP pulls the plug on usenet?
> Obviously, you vote out the current crop of idiots running the government.
> The FCC commissioner has an IQ that barely tops his apparent age (teens).

The Federal Government has nothing to do with Usenet being dropped by many
ISP's. Frontier dropped binary groups a few months ago and I expect it will
drop Usenet in the future. Anything to save a buck. When that time comes I
suppose I will look at the free alternatives. Right now I can't see myself
paying
to read some of the drivel I see posted.
Regards,
JR

Silver Surfer wrote:
> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
> Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
> this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or
> some other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans
> if your ISP pulls the plug on usenet?

So far in Texas, Comcast has not said anything about ending newsgroups.
I'm sure they will eventually.
I'd like to go to DSL but all we have here is ATT and they don't carry ng's.
Might be worth it though.. DSL is half the the cost of Comcast cable internet and 4 times the speed.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:31:45 -0400, "Silver Surfer" <SilverSurfer@comcast.net>
wrote:

>Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
>Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
>this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or some
>other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans if your
>ISP pulls the plug on usenet?


I've used Giganews for a few years now. No complaints at all.

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Silver Surfer turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:

> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
> Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
> this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or
> some
> other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans if your
> ISP pulls the plug on usenet?

I pay 10 euros/year (about $14) for individual.net

http://www.individual.net/

Also your IP is hidden.

I've been using it for several years.

DSLExtreme is not cutting of my supernews account, so I just use that for -
ahem - testing binary downloads such as public domain music and such...



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"JR" <racmsc@epix.net> wrote in message
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>
> "maxell" <2hd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u66dnbPU5OIAcEvVnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>>
>> "Silver Surfer" <SilverSurfer@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:u9WdnRpqHMv-ekvVnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it off?
>>> Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy reading
>>> this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying Giganews or
>>> some other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What are your plans
>>> if your ISP pulls the plug on usenet?
>> Obviously, you vote out the current crop of idiots running the
>> government. The FCC commissioner has an IQ that barely tops his apparent
>> age (teens).
>
> The Federal Government has nothing to do with Usenet being dropped by many
> ISP's. Frontier dropped binary groups a few months ago and I expect it
> will
> drop Usenet in the future. Anything to save a buck. When that time comes I
> suppose I will look at the free alternatives. Right now I can't see myself
> paying
> to read some of the drivel I see posted.
> Regards,
> JR

You haven't been keeping up.

"maxell" <2hd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "JR" <racmsc@epix.net> wrote in message
> news:JJDBk.45$cq1.17@fe103.usenetserver.com...
>>
>> "maxell" <2hd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:u66dnbPU5OIAcEvVnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>>>
>>> "Silver Surfer" <SilverSurfer@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>> news:u9WdnRpqHMv-ekvVnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>> Have any of you folks lost access to usenet because your ISP cut it
>>>> off? Comcast is ending usenet access for me late in October. I enjoy
>>>> reading this newsgroup and a few others, but the prospect of paying
>>>> Giganews or some other service $8 per month doesn't thrill me. What
>>>> are your plans if your ISP pulls the plug on usenet?
>>> Obviously, you vote out the current crop of idiots running the
>>> government. The FCC commissioner has an IQ that barely tops his apparent
>>> age (teens).
>>
>> The Federal Government has nothing to do with Usenet being dropped by
>> many
>> ISP's. Frontier dropped binary groups a few months ago and I expect it
>> will
>> drop Usenet in the future. Anything to save a buck. When that time comes
>> I
>> suppose I will look at the free alternatives. Right now I can't see
>> myself paying
>> to read some of the drivel I see posted.
>> Regards,
>> JR
>
> You haven't been keeping up.
>
Ok, So enlighten me.
Last I knew....There are no Usenet "administrators" per se; each server
administrator is free to do whatever pleases him or her as long as the end
users and peer servers tolerate and accept it.
Regards,
JR