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Comcast Discontinues Customers' USENET Service

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

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."

7 of 327 comments (clear)

  1. Provided! by Goaway · · Score: 3, Funny

    I gather this is about some kind of service which was provided, huh?

  2. Great! Cheaper service! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  3. Looks like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    september is finaly over...

  4. Hi! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  5. what's next by jank1887 · · Score: 4, Funny

    soon people will tell me I can't use Gopher anymore.

  6. linux.kernel by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since the Linux Kernel developers use USENET as the core of their development communications channel, I think declaring USENET obsolete is a bit premature.

    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
  7. Re:So? by beacher · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.