Yup, Comcast has stated that they will not be offering Usenet, they are also increasing the cost by $5.00 a month according to letters recieved by several users.
From an ongoing email discourse with Comcast:
Dear Eric,
Thank you for your message concerning your Comcast newsgroups.
In response to your inquiry regarding the future of Newsgroups via the new Comcast managed network, we regret to inform you that Comcast will not offer Newsgroups when we transition our customers to the new Comcast managed network.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause some of our customers and hope all who routinely use Newsgroups will come to enjoy the new features offered with the new service when it is launched.
It is our sincere hope that all of our customers will see for themselves the benefits of the new Comcast managed network and choose to remain part of the Comcast family.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
If there is anything else we can help you with, please contact us. Thank you for choosing Comcast.
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Yup, Comcast has stated that they will not be offering Usenet, they are also increasing the cost by $5.00 a month according to letters recieved by several users.
From an ongoing email discourse with Comcast:
Dear Eric,
Thank you for your message concerning your Comcast newsgroups.
In response to your inquiry regarding the future of Newsgroups via the new Comcast managed network, we regret to inform you that Comcast will not offer Newsgroups when we transition our customers to the new Comcast managed network.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause some of our customers and hope all who routinely use Newsgroups will come to enjoy the new features offered with the new service when it is launched.
It is our sincere hope that all of our customers will see for themselves the benefits of the new Comcast managed network and choose to remain part of the Comcast family.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
If there is anything else we can help you with, please contact us. Thank you for choosing Comcast.
Travis
Comcast
E-mail Response Specialist