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Lee Michaels Lee Michaels is offline
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Default Comcast is dropping newsgroups


"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"mapdude" wrote in message
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Just got the notice today.

So, what are the alternatives to get the newsgroups?



For a one time $3.95 sign-up fee www.teranews.com is OK, but some of my
posts never seem to make it to the group.

Last night I signed up for a free www.motzarella.org account and it works
better posting, but they don't carry ABPW, at least on the server I'm
using. They have two others I've not tried yet. .

I signed up with Astraweb. It was just ten bucks and at my current rate of
use should last me for years. And I get binaries too. They have other
plans if you are a heavy user.

The only problem I had was that I had not set up the account to use a
password. Once I did that, I was in and it works just fine.

Comcast contacted me today and said that giganews has a special offer for
me. I was not interested.