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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."

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

    september is finaly over...

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

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

  3. 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.