Comcast moving to Giagnews

Transition from netnews.comcast.net to the Comcast newsgroups, provided by
Giganews. 11/24/2004

After December 31st, all Comcast netnews users will be transitioned to the
current Comcast newsgroup service provided by Giganews.
In addition, starting January 1, 2005, we will be doubling the current
monthly Giganews download limit to 2 GB (headers will not be included in
these new limits).

In article rMkqd.477584$D%.457034@attbi_s51,
"w9gb" wrote:

Transition from netnews.comcast.net to the Comcast newsgroups, provided by
Giganews. 11/24/2004

After December 31st, all Comcast netnews users will be transitioned to the
current Comcast newsgroup service provided by Giganews.
In addition, starting January 1, 2005, we will be doubling the current
monthly Giganews download limit to 2 GB (headers will not be included in
these new limits).

Screw Comcast and giganews. Comcast has been using Giganews in my
area for at least two or three years - newsgroup retention sucks,
binary groups are limited and the ones they do have are hit pretty
hard by retention issues so unless you check the groups often and hit
them the moment you see something, you've got a good chance of missing
it.

Newsguy is well worth the $10 a month I pay (and it would be cheaper
if I paid yearly rather than quarterly).

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
http://www.angryherb.net

"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
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In article rMkqd.477584$D%.457034@attbi_s51,
"w9gb" wrote:

Transition from netnews.comcast.net to the Comcast newsgroups, provided
by
Giganews. 11/24/2004

After December 31st, all Comcast netnews users will be transitioned to
the
current Comcast newsgroup service provided by Giganews.
In addition, starting January 1, 2005, we will be doubling the current
monthly Giganews download limit to 2 GB (headers will not be included in
these new limits).

Screw Comcast and giganews. Comcast has been using Giganews in my
area for at least two or three years - newsgroup retention sucks,
binary groups are limited and the ones they do have are hit pretty
hard by retention issues so unless you check the groups often and hit
them the moment you see something, you've got a good chance of missing
it.

Newsguy is well worth the $10 a month I pay (and it would be cheaper
if I paid yearly rather than quarterly).

Herb -

I was a very early beta site for Continental Cablevision's usage of Motorola
broadband technology (before the DOCSIS standard) .. although the connection
has remained the same (or increased in overall bandwidth) .. the ISPs
management have been a totally different story !!

From the sale to MediaOne (U.S. West/Qwest majority owner) to AT&T Cable to
AT&T @Home (disaster in making) to AT&T Broadband to Comcast -- it has been
a long, wild ride.

Fortunately, the head-end was a solid design that most of the new owners
"left alone" until Comcast. Comcast has performed a few steps locally that
rival the old Continental Cablevision and MediaOne level of service (and
AT&T was overall the worst of the owners locally).

1. They did update the Motorola head-end equipment for DOCSIS
compatitibility (a good thing) .. and not cheap for a mature system (large
number of users) in a municipality of 42,000 residents.
2. When SBC purchased Ameritech and slowly improved the previously a lousy
Ameritech DSL service offering (and competitor) -- Comcast ratcheted up the
overall cable modem bandwidth for the $$ and stayed competitive in
marketplace.
3. Their spam filtering and management is far superior to AT&T poor
management (e.g. the employee that sold the AT&T BI e-mail database to a
spam originator - at least the U.S. attorney office finally arrested him and
that case is "in the courts").

Unfortunately, their negatives locally are that they continue to charge more
for digital cable services (set top box) than the satellite competitors
(Dish, DirecTV).

gb