OT - damn, no more newsgroups

Comcast just pulled it's news.comcast.net newsgroup
provider without telling us. All of a sudden I couldn't
get any newsgroup messages and when I tried to
re-download my newsgroups I got the message that
news.comcast.net no longer existed.

Of course I couldn't not be without my rec.pets.cats.
anecdotes and the other newsgroups I read. Thank
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of
subscriptions and I just got the cheapest one. It
looks good and at $8US a month it's not bad. We
are getting less and less good stuff without having
to pay for it these days.


--
Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.

"Irulan" wrote in message
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Comcast just pulled it's news.comcast.net newsgroup
provider without telling us. All of a sudden I couldn't
get any newsgroup messages and when I tried to
re-download my newsgroups I got the message that
news.comcast.net no longer existed.

Of course I couldn't not be without my rec.pets.cats.
anecdotes and the other newsgroups I read. Thank
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of
subscriptions and I just got the cheapest one. It
looks good and at $8US a month it's not bad. We
are getting less and less good stuff without having
to pay for it these days.

Seriously? I haven't heard that. I'm accessing through Comcast via
Giganews for free. My news server is newsgroups.comcast.net and it's
working so make sure of what news server you're accessing. Is this what I
have to look forward to? I notice I have to authenticate many times lately
just to get the groups, but that isn't anything new.

Irulan wrote:
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of
subscriptions and I just got the cheapest one. It
looks good and at $8US a month it's not bad. We

news.individual.net is 10 euros per year.

--
Victor M. Martinez
Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)
Send your spam he
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Cheryl, go to Comcast.net and access your
account and then go to creating a newsgroup.
When I did that I got the message that Comcast
is getting rid of their newsgroups.comcast.net
server as of Oct 25. I think you can still access
the service until then. I had to reset my newsgroup
and when I went to get the newsgroup list is when
I got the message that newsgroups.comcast.net
no longer exists. Good luck.

--
Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.
"Cheryl" wrote in message
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"Irulan" wrote in message
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Comcast just pulled it's news.comcast.net newsgroup
provider without telling us. All of a sudden I couldn't
get any newsgroup messages and when I tried to
re-download my newsgroups I got the message that
news.comcast.net no longer existed.

Of course I couldn't not be without my rec.pets.cats.
anecdotes and the other newsgroups I read. Thank
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of
subscriptions and I just got the cheapest one. It
looks good and at $8US a month it's not bad. We
are getting less and less good stuff without having
to pay for it these days.

Seriously? I haven't heard that. I'm accessing through Comcast via
Giganews for free. My news server is newsgroups.comcast.net and it's
working so make sure of what news server you're accessing. Is this what I
have to look forward to? I notice I have to authenticate many times
lately just to get the groups, but that isn't anything new.

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
...
Irulan wrote:
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of
subscriptions and I just got the cheapest one. It
looks good and at $8US a month it's not bad. We

news.individual.net is 10 euros per year.


I cancelled that because they won't take Discover card. That's my online
card because I get lots of alerts and stuff.

"Irulan" wrote in message
...
Cheryl, go to Comcast.net and access your
account and then go to creating a newsgroup.
When I did that I got the message that Comcast
is getting rid of their newsgroups.comcast.net
server as of Oct 25. I think you can still access
the service until then. I had to reset my newsgroup
and when I went to get the newsgroup list is when
I got the message that newsgroups.comcast.net
no longer exists. Good luck.


Well, hell, you're right. I found this message on the forum and they have a
point. I guess it really is time this time to change my ISP. Everyone says
"you pay WHAT for internet access??"

"If I contract directly with Giganews for the service that Comcast is taking
away, it's $7.99/month.

"The Internet portion of my monthly Comcast bill is $42.95.

"If "ComcastCares" is true, then they will lower my monthly bill by 18% to
compensate for the 18% reduction in service, right?"

"Irulan" wrote

| Comcast just pulled it's news.comcast.net newsgroup
| provider without telling us. All of a sudden I couldn't
| get any newsgroup messages and when I tried to
| re-download my newsgroups I got the message that
| news.comcast.net no longer existed.
|
| Of course I couldn't not be without my rec.pets.cats.
| anecdotes and the other newsgroups I read. Thank
| goodness giganews.com offers several levels of
| subscriptions and I just got the cheapest one. It
| looks good and at $8US a month it's not bad. We
| are getting less and less good stuff without having
| to pay for it these days.

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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:11:28 -0400, Cheryl wrote:

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
...
Irulan wrote:
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of subscriptions and I
just got the cheapest one. It looks good and at $8US a month it's not
bad. We

news.individual.net is 10 euros per year.


I cancelled that because they won't take Discover card. That's my
online card because I get lots of alerts and stuff.

Hi Cheryl and whoever else.

Three different free news servers:
NNTP.aioe.org No sign up needed.

news2.motzarella.org Look for their web page as this one needs
a valid name, doesn't need to be yours, and they send you a password.


news.datemas.de This one wants a valid e-mail address and
an eight letter/number password.

You can get the web address with Google.

Li'l Al

"Albert Gerber" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:11:28 -0400, Cheryl wrote:

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
...
Irulan wrote:
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of subscriptions and I
just got the cheapest one. It looks good and at $8US a month it's not
bad. We

news.individual.net is 10 euros per year.


I cancelled that because they won't take Discover card. That's my
online card because I get lots of alerts and stuff.

Hi Cheryl and whoever else.

Three different free news servers:
NNTP.aioe.org No sign up needed.

news2.motzarella.org Look for their web page as this one needs
a valid name, doesn't need to be yours, and they send you a password.


news.datemas.de This one wants a valid e-mail address and
an eight letter/number password.

You can get the web address with Google.

Li'l Al

Hi Al! I don't think I've seen you in this group before.

Joy

Victor Martinez wrote:
Irulan wrote:
goodness giganews.com offers several levels of
subscriptions and I just got the cheapest one. It
looks good and at $8US a month it's not bad. We

news.individual.net is 10 euros per year.

There are pros and cons with Individual.

Pro: Prompt and helpful service via e-mail
Pro: Virtually no spam on the newsgroups (they clean it up for you)
Pro: Incredible value (in terms of quality per $1) at 10 Euro a year
Pro: Alot of people use it, and therefore can help with technical issues
Pro: Is not the ISP you connect to the internet with, therefore can use
your account from any computer you can set up with your details (I can
post from 5 different PCs.
Pro: Not Google Groups - needs a real news reader to work. (Well, I
think its a pro)

Con: Need to have a way of paying in Euros (they don't use PayPal)
Con: No binary groups
Con: In Germany, so expensive to contact if you need to talk to a human
being. They do, however, speak perfectly good English when I rang them
(and laughed when I tried to speak German)

Featu Limit to number of posts per day (but not an unreasonable
number, I think its 200 or so - who makes that many posts?????)
Featu Have to have a valid e-mail address to post (but I've been
using a munged one for years and no-one has complained)

Yowie