[ale] comcast drops usenet

[Jim Kinney]

test it with alt.binaries. From what I read, that is what they want to
squash as it's bandwidth competition for their OnDemand content.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at clayton.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:09:58AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > even though I went to a real usenet server company years ago, this is
> sad..
> >
> > An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has discontinued its provided usenet
> > service, once provided to all its high speed customers. First with the
> > cap put on its customers several years ago on amount of traffic provided
> > as part of the customer high-speed package, as of September 16, the
> > service is no longer provided. Without fanfare, this bastion of the
> > internet is being removed from the mainstream."
>
> I just connected. Seems to be working fine.
>
> BAJ
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