Subj : Re: Finding a USENET news server when my ISP doesn't provide it To : Steve From : CBFalconer Date : Tue Feb 26 2002 03:31 am From: CBFalconer@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (CBFalconer) Subject: Re: Finding a USENET news server when my ISP doesn't provide it From: CBFalconer "E. S. (Steve) Fabian" wrote: > > "James M. Prange" wrote: > > > > "E. S. (Steve) Fabian" wrote: > > > > > > On Feb. 28 my ISP will terminate access to USENET news. Any > > > suggestions how I can continue? > > > > Chuck Falconer's advice to find a new ISP sounds pretty reasonable too. > > > > My own ISP has been claiming hardware problems and I'm getting pretty > > disgusted with that, but I'm already paid up for the next several > > months, and using newsreader.mailgate.org seems to work better than > > using my ISP's news server did anyway. > > Unfortunately, my ISP is COMCAST - the only broadband available at my > location (cable). DSL is not available due to distance from telephone > exchange. So ISP change would mean returning to dial-up service. I'll > try the mailgate. They've been calling me once in a while to take their service. I'll have to keep that in mind for the next time, and play them like a salmon. How can they call it 'Internet Service' when they omit a major portion? Might even be some legal aspects. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@XXXXworldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce@ftc.gov (for spambots to harvest) -- |Fidonet: CBFalconer 1:342/3 | | Origin: The Cereal Port BBS (603)899-3335 199.125.78.133 (1:132/152) --- # Origin: (1:132/152.4) * Origin: Baddog BBS (1:218/903) .