1 edit | [Newsgroups] The Comcast Newsgroups Service Discontinued 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.
Added the Newsgroups title tag. ~sorto' |
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| Re: The Comcast Newsgroups Service Discontinued Well that bites. They only allowed 2 gigs per month anyway. |
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 beerbumPremium
join:2000-05-06
Reading, PA | reply to comcastcares
so will Comcast be reducing our bills since the equivalent service from Giganews is $7.99 per month?
hahahaha I doubt it. Comcast just takes and takes while either raising prices or restricting/dropping services..
what's next, dump the "always on" and start charging by the hour after being on-line past a certain time limit??
this really sucks, now I have to pay an extra $8 per month for a service I want and use?
absolute bullshit.. |
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 rloconeHonor Our Heros, Our Armed ForcesPremium
join:2002-04-10
Kokomo, IN | reply to comcastcares
There service sucked anyways. I've been using Giganews for years now. Also, if anything goes down w/ RIAA/MPAA & Newsgroups the ISPs wash their hands of it. |
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beerbumPremium
join:2000-05-06
Reading, PA | said by rlocone:There service sucked anyways. I've been using Giganews for years now. Also, if anything goes down w/ RIAA/MPAA & Newsgroups the ISPs wash their hands of it. just so you know.. Comcast's usenet has been outsourced to Giganews for some time now.. So I fail to see how Comcast's usenet sucks while Giganews usenet is "better".
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rloconeHonor Our Heros, Our Armed ForcesPremium
join:2002-04-10
Kokomo, IN | That may be true. You just didn't get the same value out of it. Sometimes you get what you pay for. |
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said by beerbum:so will Comcast be reducing our bills since the equivalent service from Giganews is $7.99 per month? hahahaha I doubt it. Comcast just takes and takes while either raising prices or restricting/dropping services.. what's next, dump the "always on" and start charging by the hour after being on-line past a certain time limit?? this really sucks, now I have to pay an extra $8 per month for a service I want and use? absolute bullshit.. Well technically the price you pay is for access to the internet. Anything else (email,usenet,free anti-virus) are just added features. |
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 CableToolPoorly Representing MYSELF.Premium
join:2004-11-12 | reply to beerbum
said by beerbum:so will Comcast be reducing our bills since the equivalent service from Giganews is $7.99 per month? Did your rate increase $7.99 when newsgroup access was added to accounts?
"hahahaha I doubt it."
Also when did Comcast raise CHSI prices?
Now you have to pay $8.00 a month for service you were previously getting for free. Chances are you will not and many will not.
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 RobIn Deo speramus.Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:3 | reply to comcastcares
It sucks for Giganews. |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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said by comcastcares: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. Interesting. I guess that leaves the (current) largest ISP as one of the few standing to continue NNTP service (albeit, without the 'alt.binaries.*' hierarchy).
It is nice to see Comcast not lay the blame for this at NYAG Mario Cuomo's feet.
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| said by NormanS:It is nice to see Comcast not lay the blame for this at NYAG Mario Cuomo's feet. Yeah, Comcast says they're dropping Usenet because other ISPs are dropping Usenet. It's the usual lying from Comcast. |
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 dnoyeBFerrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI | Is this for real? I use news groups daily! This can't be real.  |
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 joe40
join:2005-11-26
Danbury, CT | reply to comcastcares
i am a little glad
2 gigs a month was never large enough to be of any good use.
all i want is comcast replace it with something.
but not likely |
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said by NormanS:said by comcastcares: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. Interesting. I guess that leaves the (current) largest ISP as one of the few standing to continue NNTP service (albeit, without the 'alt.binaries.*' hierarchy). It is nice to see Comcast not lay the blame for this at NYAG Mario Cuomo's feet. comcastcares left out the last paragraph of the post that he made in the Comcast help forum.
"While the majority of Newsgroups are safe, newsgroups have been found to be a source of child pornography on the internet. This is just one of the child protection measures Comcast has taken to help reduce access to child pornography." |
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1 edit | Give us a break. They're dropping 70,000 filtered text groups.
This is just the first salvo in the war against all P2P traffic. The internet is being converted into one never-ending Geico commercial. I guarantee ISPs will be blocking all P2P traffic within a year or two. |
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| said by ELRefugee:Give us a break. They're dropping 70,000 filtered text groups. This is just the first salvo on the war against all P2P traffic. The internet is being converted into one never-ending Geico commercial. So Comcast is only dropping text groups and we'll still be able to download files on binary groups?
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 hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
kudos:8 | reply to ELRefugee
said by ELRefugee:This is just the first salvo in the war against all P2P traffic. The internet is being converted into one never-ending Geico commercial. I guarantee ISPs will be blocking all P2P traffic within a year or two. This would make sense if Newsgroups was P2P traffic.
Hob
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1 edit | I didn't say NNTP is P2P. I'm saying this reduction of service is just one step in a larger process. |
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 RR ConductorNWP RR Co.,serving NW CAPremium
join:2002-04-02
Redwood Valley, CA
kudos:1 | reply to comcastcares
I'm not sad to see them go, I stopped using Usenet a while ago. The newsgroups are a free for all, with no moderation at all, and while I know many use them for legitimate purposes, there are a lot of freaks hiding out on them, it's scary what is posted on on some of them. |
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ok since comcast is getting rid of newsgroups on october 25th what service is the best newsgroup service out there (downloads, size,etc)? |
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