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Comcast Discontinues Customers' USENET Service
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 gather this is about some kind of service which was provided, huh?
A provider gets paid for connectivity and extra services. As Comcast now discontinues one of their services, I guess the monthly bill gets a bit trimmed as well!
Or are they really the moneygrabbing bastards they are made out to be?
september is finaly over...
Wtf is that supposed to mean? I have zilch clue on how to parse that.. it seems to have zero correlation with the preceding and following sentences in the summary. I mean seriously, you don't really need a degree in Literature to write 3 decent, interconnected sentences..
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I just got an AOL account. I was told to come here. I have to start my computer and it's asking for the ANY key. My computer didn't com with one. What do I do?
soon people will tell me I can't use Gopher anymore.
Since the Linux Kernel developers use USENET as the core of their development communications channel, I think declaring USENET obsolete is a bit premature.
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Anyway, this might be the last thing I post, as I have just discovered that bad things can get transferred via HTTP, and so I have to block port 80
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
"I read USENET for the great articles"
s/USENET/PlayBoy/
Me for one - I'm not going to miss it. Comcast limited you to a 1G ( I think they raised it to 2G in the last year) and I'm usually warming up about that point. Switched over to maximumusenet.com and haven't looked back. So now I can read 50G of articles for their well thought out commentary and in-depth analysis. Helped me complete my mame rom set, all the drm free mp3's and no sneaky mediasentry to worry about!
Thanks for nothing Comcast.
I have found memories of Usenet from the days before http
Damn it. I knew I'd left them somewhere.
No. That's Comcastic!
"The bad machine doesn't know he's a bad machine."
usually harshly! :)
"you idiot, you think you're a programmer. That's a horrible idea, implemented wrong. Try it _MY_ super experienced over ego inflated way"
>But every web forum sucks as a web forum,
>this is a hard and fast rule.
Really?
Do you maintain that this would apply to a forum on Microsoft vacuum cleaners? I highly doubt it . . .
hawkk