OT - Usenet Access?

Dec 28, 2006 26 Replies

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AMPSOne

Frank, Sure you can, but you have to go in through Google groups. The URL is: try that and bookmark it. Cookie Sewell

Frank 19 years ago

Hello all -

Since Comcast is absorbing Adelphia (my current ISP), I cannot access Usenet and the tech at Comcast tells me Comcast has no support for Usenet, while suggesting I subscribe to Comcast Newsgroups. Last night, I was able to log on via my e-mail program (Thunderbird) and today, the tap is shut off. Are there any other Comcast users who may shed light on this situation since the tech seemed a bit off in his responses - I fear he had no idea what Usenet is...

Anyway, thanks for any help...

Frank Kranick

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AMPSOne 19 years ago

Frank,

Sure you can, but you have to go in through Google groups. The URL is:

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so try that and bookmark it.

Cookie Sewell

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e 19 years ago

try putting news.comcast.com in your set up options. might be net, not com.

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Rufus 19 years ago

e's right on - check here:

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And/or do a search on "news" from the Comcast Help page. My folks have service with Comcast back in the 60187...I finally got them onto NS 7.2 and everybody's happy.

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Rufus 19 years ago

DANG...and if you have a laptop and want to roam around, THIS could come in handy...:

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...my ISP (Mediacom) won't allow SSL connections to it's news server.

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e 19 years ago

s***ty retention in the binaries but i suspect frank isn't a movie or music collector. how is it in the text groups, rufus?

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e 19 years ago

a fave for music and movie pirates...whoever they are. easynews runs ssl as do most of the major nsp's.

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Rufus 19 years ago

Not any different than with Mediacom, from what I can tell.

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William H. Shuey 19 years ago

Hi Cookie: Merry Christmas and thanks for the info. I am getting ready to change service providers and the suggestion might come in handy!

Bill Shuey

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote:

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The Old Man 19 years ago

But the only problem there is that Google doesn't support the binary Groups, so kiss the aviation and modeling photos good-bye.

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Gary R. Schmidt 19 years ago

readfreenews.com is a possible fee solution to this.

octanews.com is a cheap solution to this (same as readfreeware, but better access).

Cheers, Gary B-)

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Don Stauffer in Minnesota 19 years ago

I have also become a Google Groups user after my ISP, though still providing Usenet, refuses to troubleshoot problems with their link. It became very unreliable. I use GG now instead- it is very reliable. So I second Cookie's recommendation.

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Spaceman 19 years ago

Frank

We recently went through the change from Suscom to Comcast also. I was told by the tech from comcast to go with giganews they support the binary news groups and have tiered plans for downloads.

Hope this helps

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Ray S. & Nayda Katzaman 19 years ago

=== Frank, I'm not into knowing what my ISP does or does not do for newsgroups, but since I started surfing the web and reading NGs I have been using NetScape. I, as prehistoric as it may sound, still use NS 4.something or other, and still can read the newsgroups and download pictures. The only ones I cannot see are the yEncs or when the pics are posted in several parts. So, for what it's worth, give NS a look.

Cheers,

Ray Austin, TX ===

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