Comcast

Hi the

Comcast has notified me that they will cease as of Oct 25, 2008 to carry all
and any of the newsgroups.

They have offered a continuation via a third party. The price for this, is
unknown to me at this time. I also know that Comcast will not reduce it's
bill for me due to it's discontinuation of this valuable service.

I will miss all the posts, the photos, the comments, etc from this group.

Until that time, take care all

Jacques Guay

Thank you for your help. I shall look into it.

Jacques


"Sj" wrote in message
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:17:13 -0400, "Jacques & Laurie"
wrote:

Hi the

Comcast has notified me that they will cease as of Oct 25, 2008 to carry
all
and any of the newsgroups.

They have offered a continuation via a third party. The price for this,
is
unknown to me at this time. I also know that Comcast will not reduce it's
bill for me due to it's discontinuation of this valuable service.

I will miss all the posts, the photos, the comments, etc from this group.

Until that time, take care all

Jacques Guay

I went w/ APN for 12 gigs/month for $2.95 ...

Headers count toward the monthly quota ...

Support has been good the few times I had questions ...

http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php

Lots of other options available, depending on how much you
d/l on average each month ... I'm sure there are more sites
than the ones I'm going to list:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html

http://docs.newzbin.com/index.php/Usenet:ISP_Providers

http://www.newsgroup-binaries.com/

https://www.supernews.com/signup/ - shows the
various packages and pricing.

If you need LOTS of retention, you'll most likely pay
more ... if not, you should be able to find a relatively
inexpensive news service ...

Check home pages for up-to-date pricing, some give a free
trial, ask in alt.binaries.news-server-comparison ... just
ignore the garbage that you might see there ...

Sj

Sj wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:17:13 -0400, "Jacques & Laurie"
wrote:

Hi the

Comcast has notified me that they will cease as of Oct 25, 2008 to carry all
and any of the newsgroups.

They have offered a continuation via a third party. The price for this, is
unknown to me at this time. I also know that Comcast will not reduce it's
bill for me due to it's discontinuation of this valuable service.

I will miss all the posts, the photos, the comments, etc from this group.

Until that time, take care all

Jacques Guay

I went w/ APN for 12 gigs/month for $2.95 ...

Headers count toward the monthly quota ...

Support has been good the few times I had questions ...

http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php

Lots of other options available, depending on how much you
d/l on average each month ... I'm sure there are more sites
than the ones I'm going to list:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html

http://docs.newzbin.com/index.php/Usenet:ISP_Providers

http://www.newsgroup-binaries.com/

https://www.supernews.com/signup/ - shows the
various packages and pricing.

If you need LOTS of retention, you'll most likely pay
more ... if not, you should be able to find a relatively
inexpensive news service ...

Check home pages for up-to-date pricing, some give a free
trial, ask in alt.binaries.news-server-comparison ... just
ignore the garbage that you might see there ...

Sj


I have the 5.95/5GB/Month package from Supernews. Have had it for
several months now, and have not experienced any downtime or lag at all.
Seems to be a pretty decent service.

--
Our website is http://myweb.cableone.net/okieman7

Jacques & Laurie wrote:
Hi the

Comcast has notified me that they will cease as of Oct 25, 2008 to carry all
and any of the newsgroups.

They have offered a continuation via a third party. The price for this, is
unknown to me at this time. I also know that Comcast will not reduce it's
bill for me due to it's discontinuation of this valuable service.

I will miss all the posts, the photos, the comments, etc from this group.

Until that time, take care all

Jacques Guay


Astraweb
have 110 gig for $US25 No time limit.
http://www.news.astraweb.com/signup.html

Cheers

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:17:13 -0400, "Jacques & Laurie"
wrote:

Hi the

Comcast has notified me that they will cease as of Oct 25, 2008 to carry all
and any of the newsgroups.

They have offered a continuation via a third party. The price for this, is
unknown to me at this time. I also know that Comcast will not reduce it's
bill for me due to it's discontinuation of this valuable service.

I will miss all the posts, the photos, the comments, etc from this group.

Until that time, take care all

Jacques Guay


Terra news. 60 meg/day plus one time set up charge of $3.95 US..Fine
for just reading a few groups. I've had no troubles.

http://www.teranews.com/

Maddie
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

James R. Jones wrote:
Sj wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:17:13 -0400, "Jacques & Laurie"
wrote:

Hi the

Comcast has notified me that they will cease as of Oct 25, 2008 to
carry all and any of the newsgroups.

They have offered a continuation via a third party. The price for
this, is unknown to me at this time. I also know that Comcast will
not reduce it's bill for me due to it's discontinuation of this
valuable service.

I will miss all the posts, the photos, the comments, etc from this
group.

Until that time, take care all

Jacques Guay

I went w/ APN for 12 gigs/month for $2.95 ...

Headers count toward the monthly quota ...

Support has been good the few times I had questions ...

http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php

Lots of other options available, depending on how much you
d/l on average each month ... I'm sure there are more sites
than the ones I'm going to list:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html

http://docs.newzbin.com/index.php/Usenet:ISP_Providers

http://www.newsgroup-binaries.com/

https://www.supernews.com/signup/ - shows the
various packages and pricing.

If you need LOTS of retention, you'll most likely pay
more ... if not, you should be able to find a relatively
inexpensive news service ...

Check home pages for up-to-date pricing, some give a free
trial, ask in alt.binaries.news-server-comparison ... just
ignore the garbage that you might see there ...

Sj


I have the 5.95/5GB/Month package from Supernews. Have had it for
several months now, and have not experienced any downtime or lag at all.
Seems to be a pretty decent service.

I just signed up for the free.terranews.com service. had some issue the
first several days, but they seem to have settled down.

http://www.teranews.com/


** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

"Kahuna" wrote in message
...
Astraweb
have 110 gig for $US25 No time limit.
http://www.news.astraweb.com/signup.html

Cheers

Astraweb, with its "block pricing", is working well for me. Up until about
five days ago, I was supplementing it with the (almost) free Teranews, but
there have been no headers added lately. Hope it's just temporary.