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."

Comments

Re:So?

[houghi]

Yes. I like it much better then forums for support.

I hardly ever see any spam. Mainly because it is filtered out.

Re:Looks like

[nbert]

To anyone who doesn't get op's statement: Eternal September

And yes, it's funny.

Re:Much ado about nothing

[nstrom]

Actually Comcast's usenet service was provided by Giganews, albeit with a 2GB/mo cap. So it wasn't just text groups, they had all the binary groups with excellent retention.

Does any serious IT geek *not* use usenet?

[Viol8]

I mean come on , who wants to waste time searching out some website to post a question or find a discussion when you just need access to a news server and the lot is available immediately.

Anyone who doesn't use it just because they think its old fashioned and uncool because it doesn't have the "ooh shiny" factor is a blinkered idiot.

Re:Does any serious IT geek *not* use usenet?

[xZgf6xHx2uhoAj9D]

Agreed. I'll say the "ooh shiny" probably works in FAVOUR of Usenet, too. Modern NNTP clients are flat-out sweet. The way they group threads, group binaries, give previews, actually use native widgets. Much better than some shitty web interface someone has thrown together.

Re:Working here

[plover]

RTFA. They're disconnecting it on October 25th.