Pretty observant there Jack. I no longer have Comcast as a service
provider since I moved, my ISP is now Patriot Media. I'm in what used
to be a sparsley populated part of the state that no big companies
wanted. I can't even get Verizon home phone service.
Hopefully Verizon & Comcast will buy up my part of NJ soon so I can get
back to real service...
I was but I dropped Sprint to go with Voip phone. Best price Sprint
would give me $65 a month for unlimited phone.
For those that are interested the Voip phone works fine and has never
gone down. The modem has a 4 hour battery in case of a power outage.
We also have cell phones just in case.
Got a 1 year deal for $115 a mo. that includes:
digital cable
digital phone
HBO (ten channels plus HBO on demand)
Internet
I think at the end of one year the price for all of this goes up to
around $753 a month, but I'll worry about that then. I'm one of those
people that switched long distance carriers every few months in the 80s
when they used to mail out those checks.
On 18 May 2006 17:13:39 -0700, RayV wrote:
> Pretty observant there Jack. I no longer have Comcast as a service
> provider since I moved, my ISP is now Patriot Media. I'm in what used
> to be a sparsley populated part of the state that no big companies
> wanted. I can't even get Verizon home phone service.
>
> Hopefully Verizon & Comcast will buy up my part of NJ soon so I can get
> back to real service...
Ray,
Are you a United Telephone/Sprint customer? Sprint DSL comes with Earthlink,
and they have a fairly good news server.
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Art
On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:37:37 -0700, Mark & Juanita wrote:
> How about an anti-testimonial?
[... snip ...]
> I first tried the "free" service (initial setup cost is something like
> $3.95). I had continual problems accessing the server, often not being
> able to get updates to the group for days at a time, binaries didn't load
> well -- I often was unable to download pictures from abpw. There were some
> picture files that would literally hang my news reader and require having
> to restart the newsreader. For some reason I can't explain, I thought
> maybe the subscription Teranews service would be better. It wasn't. I
> switched to Supernews before my Teranews subscription had even expired and
> have never looked back. I can now see all binary files from abpw and abpf
> and have never suffered any downtime being able to access the servers.
Mirrors my experience exactly. I signed up for Supernews within a few days of
signing up for Teranews. It was _that_ bad.
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Art
In article <[email protected]>,
RayV <[email protected]> wrote:
> My cable company doesn't provide newsgroups as part of my service so I
> am using Google to read and post to the group.
>
> Is there another way that I can access the group that will give me some
> filtering capabilities and not have me filtered as a googler?
There are a variety of news providers you can subscribe to. I use
supernews.com
On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:27:05 -0500, Enoch Root <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On 2006-05-18, Upscale <[email protected]> ranted thusly:
>> "Dave Balderstone" wrote in message
>
>>> There are a variety of news providers you can subscribe to. I use
>>> supernews.com
>>
>> Teranews is also a cheap alternative. For their basic service, they charge a
>> one time fee of something like $3.95. It provides access to all the usenet
>> groups.
>
>That's amazing. I wonder if they are better at it than my provider. I
>get occasional requests for a username/password authorization that their
>tech support can neither explain, nor provide insight to (they usually
>ask me if my computer is plugged in, or tell me to use IE or something.)
>
>Any testimonials? :)
>
How about an anti-testimonial? I subscribed to teranews after my ISP
(Direcway) decided that Usenet wasn't all that important and stopped
carrying newsgroups. I first tried the "free" service (initial setup cost
is something like $3.95). I had continual problems accessing the server,
often not being able to get updates to the group for days at a time,
binaries didn't load well -- I often was unable to download pictures from
abpw. There were some picture files that would literally hang my news
reader and require having to restart the newsreader. For some reason I
can't explain, I thought maybe the subscription Teranews service would be
better. It wasn't. I switched to Supernews before my Teranews
subscription had even expired and have never looked back. I can now see
all binary files from abpw and abpf and have never suffered any downtime
being able to access the servers.
>er
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough
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RayV wrote:
> My cable company doesn't provide newsgroups as part of my service so I
> am using Google to read and post to the group.
>
> Is there another way that I can access the group that will give me some
> filtering capabilities and not have me filtered as a googler?
>
I want free - I found this Italian place. Seems to work fine. Only thing
is it sometimes adds a signature. Yuck (Sorry guys)
http://www.x-privat.org/international.php
Inviato da X-Privat.Org - Registrazione gratuita http://www.x-privat.org/join.php
On 2006-05-18, Upscale <[email protected]> ranted thusly:
> "Dave Balderstone" wrote in message
>> There are a variety of news providers you can subscribe to. I use
>> supernews.com
>
> Teranews is also a cheap alternative. For their basic service, they charge a
> one time fee of something like $3.95. It provides access to all the usenet
> groups.
That's amazing. I wonder if they are better at it than my provider. I
get occasional requests for a username/password authorization that their
tech support can neither explain, nor provide insight to (they usually
ask me if my computer is plugged in, or tell me to use IE or something.)
Any testimonials? :)
er
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email not valid
I use Agent ($29) and subscribe to their APN service (starts at
$2.95/mo).
Agent's filtering capabilities arer just OK, but w/ NFilter you should
be good to go.
Usual disclaimers apply.
-Zz
On 18 May 2006 05:39:01 -0700, "RayV" <[email protected]> wrote:
>My cable company doesn't provide newsgroups as part of my service so I
>am using Google to read and post to the group.
>
>Is there another way that I can access the group that will give me some
>filtering capabilities and not have me filtered as a googler?
RayV wrote:
> My cable company doesn't provide newsgroups as part of my service so I
> am using Google to read and post to the group.
>
> Is there another way that I can access the group that will give me some
> filtering capabilities and not have me filtered as a googler?
>
By your email address it looks like Comcast is your ISP. Per their web
site they DO provide news group service.
*****
The Comcast News server settings are as follows:
NNTP Server: newsgroups.comcast.net
User name: your Comcast.net Primary email address (example:
[email protected])
Password: your Comcast.net password
*****
See:
http://www.comcast.net/help/faq/index.jsp?faq=Newsgroups118224
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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
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