Re: Notice to Comcast users!

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Sep 18, 5:53 am, Steven Lichter <diespamm...@ikillspammers.com>
wrote:
> Bill Garber wrote:
>
> > "Rich" <nos...@saddam.net> wrote in message
> >puWdnbDZDb7fokzVnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@comcast.com">news:puWdnbDZDb7fokzVnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> >> 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 am experimenting with Google right now, to see what I'm able to make
> > it do for me. Otherwise, I have no F'n idea.
> > If anyone recalls, Comcast tried this a couple year ago, but, we all
> > complained enough that it was averted. Could we all chime in now to see
> > if they'll leave us keep it once more? Got news for everyone, including
> > Com$haft, if they do this, they will be losing me altogether. FIOS is
> > looking better everyday.
> > Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
> >http://www.garberstreet.com
>
> > "If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing
> > is to be remembered." (Edgar Allen Poe)
>
> I say go to FIOS, I installed one of the Hub switches here in
> California, it makes cable look like it is going backwards.  What makes
> me worry about that is Fiber does not carry current, so if the power
> goes down, the local Hub, not the Switch Hub only have about 2 hours of
> battery backup and then you not only lose Internet/television, but also
> phone service.
>
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I asked them to comment about the shutdown and here is the response I
got from Comcast corporate communications:

"The Comcast Newsgroups service, powered by Giganews will be
discontinued
as of September 17th. Existing customers will continue to be able to
access the service until October 25th. This decision is in alignment
with other Internet Service Providers that have recently terminated
their Newsgroups service due to the declining popularity of Newsgroups
as customers chose other methods, such as RSS feeds and web browsing
to
access information."

Not exactly any explanation but shows that they dont believe Usenet
serves any purpose at this point to users.