Re: Notice to Comcast users!

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>]

On 9/17/08 1:32 PM, in article puWdnbDZDb7fokzVnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@comcast.com,
"Rich" <nospam@saddam.net> wrote:

> Greg Buchner 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.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
> 
> Well, that is disappointing...  I'm sure I won't get a price reduction
> for their reduced services, either.
> 
> Next question...
> Who can recommend a free, or low cost news server?  I'm below 2gig a
> month of text only... whatever Comcast provided for "free".
> 
> 
>       () ()
> Rich ('-')

I use http://dotsrc.org/ but they do not carry all the groups...

They are free, and worth the try!