On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:01:19 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:

azotic wrote:
Dear Valued Customer:

Effective June 30, 2010, Cox Communications will discontinue Usenet service
to our subscribers.
Well, Charter did that a number of years ago. They paid an outside
service to provide it, and if it went down Friday night, it would not be
back up until Monday morning. Certain groups (like
rec.crafts.metalworking) would just disappear for a week at a time. So,
I finally gave up and bought a monthly subscription to giga-news. I get
the lowest tier at $6.95 a month. It galls me to have to pay twice for
the service, as Charter CLAIMS they provide the service, but it never
works. The only problem with Giga-News is they have all of R.C.M back
to June 2003, and it is over 500,000 messages, now. That kind of bogs
down my computer when I open the newsgroups.

Jon


Odd...I pay $4.95 a month for Giganews. Lowest rung, but I use only a
few newsgroups and a couple binary groups.

I had to drop my 12yr old internet account some time ago..$25 a month
for dialup was simply not in my budget..and Im sharing HIGH speed
internet with a neighbor across the street with wifi. So my cost for
internet access is $0, and Usenet is $4.95 per month.

Its nice to be able to view real time video. Never had it before.

Gunner


Gunner


"First Law of Leftist Debate
The more you present a leftist with factual evidence
that is counter to his preconceived world view and the
more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without
losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot,
homophobe approaches infinity.

This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned
race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to
the subject." Grey Ghost