What's up with Google???

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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I tried to explain that to him already. He apparently just doesn't want
to
listen. There's absolutely no good reason he shouldn't be able to use the
news server account that he *already has* with his home Mediacom account,
even though he's connected through the Internet via his business Qwest DSL
account.

Not necessarily... With the various ISPs that I've had over the years, I've
noticed that they seem to restrict access to their news servers to only
people who are connecting through their own network... For example, when I'm
out of town and at a hotel, I am not able to connect to RoadRunner's news
servers, I have to use Google Groups instead... Since RR does not require
you to enter a user ID and password to connect to their news servers, I
believe that they do it this way to prevent people who are not RR customers
from being able to use their system... Some of the ISPs also do the same for
the SMTP servers... Kind of an inconvenience... Enough so that I finally
decided to just use Gmail as my primary email account... If I'm away from
home, I'll either use Google Groups or one of the free news servers for
USENET access...