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2008-07-04
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True, APN looks ok. Giganews looks very expensive. I'm not THAT addicted.
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2008-07-05
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Originally Posted by revwillie
Weird, Comcast in my area discontinued newsgroups long ago.
My comcast has free usenet, up to 2GB a month.
I also use teranews which is OK. But I highly recommend Agent Premium Newsgroups: http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php
For 3 bucks a month, you can d/l 10 GB.
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2008-07-05
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I have Verizon FIOS and they disconnected most newsgroups ~2 weeks ago... They did notify me by email few weeks before doing so...
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2008-07-07
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I haven't gotten access to local ISP based Newsgroups since I was on Ireland-OnLine dialup in the early 1990's.
I've asks the "support tech" of all the Irish ISP's and non of them know what I was talking about....
I've asks the "support tech" of all the Irish ISP's and non of them know what I was talking about....
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2008-07-07
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Some "support techs"! They could just pick up any guide to the Internet and it will mention newsgroups...
Interesting that someone mentioned Fios discontinuing newsgroups a few weeks ago. I wonder if this might be evidence of anticompetitive collusion, with coordinated phasing out of services so consumers have nowhere to turn.
In any case, I took the advice of one of the people in this thread and got newsgroups for a few dollars a month, like two or three. That satisfies me for now, though I expect future problems on this issue. As I read somewhere, the big ISPs are now considering monthly limits on how many gigs you can download -- and they want to limit users in a month to what in Japan is the limit for one day (I think it is several gigs).
Interesting that someone mentioned Fios discontinuing newsgroups a few weeks ago. I wonder if this might be evidence of anticompetitive collusion, with coordinated phasing out of services so consumers have nowhere to turn.
In any case, I took the advice of one of the people in this thread and got newsgroups for a few dollars a month, like two or three. That satisfies me for now, though I expect future problems on this issue. As I read somewhere, the big ISPs are now considering monthly limits on how many gigs you can download -- and they want to limit users in a month to what in Japan is the limit for one day (I think it is several gigs).
