Re: Notice to Comcast users!

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <null-446D88.21343517092008@newsgroups.comcast.net>,
 Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid> wrote:

> In article <null-FE6BB7.21252016092008@newsgroups.comcast.net>,
>  Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > Comcast (hereafter referred to as Com$haft) is dropping all newsgroup 
> > access as of 10/25/2008.
> > 
> > New customers who sign up now will not be able to access it all.
> > 
> > You can still do a 3rd party news server.
> > 
> > http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/
> > 
> > Figured I'd post this being that I know there's some people who use 
> > Com$haft.
> 
> Alternatives, at least cheaper ones that I've run across lately...
> 
> news.individual.net - 10 Euro a year (about $15US)
>      text only groups, no binaries
> 
> news.motzarella.org - free, don't know much more about them.
> 
> www.teranews.com was mentioned, free, 1 connection, 50MB/day
>      $3.95 signup fee
> 
> I'm sure there will be more...

Found another one that might be up some people's alley...

aioe.org

They have a free, non-authenticated news server available. There are 
some limits:

Only able to post 25 articles a day, and only able to establish 600 
total connections in a day before being banned. 8MB per day down, 350KB 
up. Should be reasonable for text only.

Now, they do have different limits mentioned in different parts of the 
site, so you'll have to pay attention.

Greg B.

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