"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...-Access-108010

Fiddley Dee :-/

"Oren" wrote in message
news
"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...-Access-108010

Fiddley Dee :-/


ehh...never fear:

http://www.eternal-september.org/

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:54:34 -0500, "JimT" wrote:

ehh...never fear:

http://www.eternal-september.org/

Mission accomplished..

In article ,
says...

"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...-Access-108010

Fiddley Dee :-/

http://www.utterpants.co.uk/news/world/coxucker.html

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:47:12 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

So? Dump Cox. There is no requirement that the folks who provide the wire
have to also be your ISP. In our case, Comcast provides internet connection
and Earthlink is our ISP. Earthlink provides, in turn, Giganews. Free.

Comcast has no market footprint in Nevada and looking at their package
prices, they cost the same as Cox.

Cox has a strangle hold in NV.

On Apr 22, 7:09*am, wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:51:28 -0400, "Not@home" wrote:

Oren wrote:
"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...ree-Usenet-Acc....

Fiddley Dee :-/

My old ISP faced the same problem as Cox, with few subscribers who used
usenet, but high equipment costs for carrying usenet. *They solved it by
giving us a low level subscription to one of the independent usenet
services, free, and allowing us to upgrade to a higher level at our own
cost if we needed more capacity. *Cox instead is just degrading their
service, but with no concurrent decrease in their rather high fees.
Greed knows no bounds.

I'll miss them. *The only thing delaying my departure is the prospect of
having to get a new email address, since after a few years, your email
address is spread all over and its a hassle having to go everywhere and
change it.

For a few dollars a year, you can register your own domain name and
have a permanent email address no matter how many times you switch
ISP's. It's very easy to set up.

Try godaddy.com

When you register a domain name with them, I'm pretty sure they give
you a few email account mailboxes free with the name. It's pretty easy
to set it up.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Your personal info is divulged if you do this. Not good. And you're
paying for this disservice. Not good.

In ,
Evan typed:
On Apr 21, 9:45 pm, Oren wrote:
"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their
customers they're ditching free Usenet access as of June
30. From an e-mail to subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...ree-Usenet-Acc...

Fiddley Dee :-/


AND ???

So stop using your ISP to access newsgroups and do it
via Google Groups...

~~ Evan

Jeeezz no! Just go to any of the other free newsgroup servers all over the
place. The 'net is about the worst way there is to view newsgroups.

TWayne

Oren wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:47:12 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

So? Dump Cox. There is no requirement that the folks who provide the
wire have to also be your ISP. In our case, Comcast provides
internet connection and Earthlink is our ISP. Earthlink provides, in
turn, Giganews. Free.

Comcast has no market footprint in Nevada and looking at their package
prices, they cost the same as Cox.

Yeah, but with Comcast you can use Earthlink as your ISP and with Earthlink
you get Giganews free.


Cox has a strangle hold in NV.

On 4/21/2010 10:47 PM Evan spake thus:

On Apr 21, 9:45 pm, Oren wrote:

"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...ree-Usenet-Acc...

Fiddley Dee :-/

AND ???

So stop using your ISP to access newsgroups and do it
via Google Groups...

No no no no no no!

Worst of all possible worlds. (Unless, for some strange reason, you
simply *must* be able to access Usenet from other people's computers.)

Besides being a massive spam portal, Google has utterly ****ed up their
web interface to Usenet. Their search function is totally useless. Users
think that the "groups" are Google creations.


--
The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring,
with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.

- Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:47:43 -0700 (PDT), Evan
wrote:

So stop using your ISP to access newsgroups and do it
via Google Groups...

You really are joking, right?!

If I HAD to use Google for reading newsgroups, I would pull the power
cord.....

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:08:05 -0400, "Twayne" wrote:

In ,
Evan typed:
On Apr 21, 9:45 pm, Oren wrote:
"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their
customers they're ditching free Usenet access as of June
30. From an e-mail to subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...ree-Usenet-Acc...

Fiddley Dee :-/


AND ???

So stop using your ISP to access newsgroups and do it
via Google Groups...

~~ Evan

Jeeezz no! Just go to any of the other free newsgroup servers all over the
place. The 'net is about the worst way there is to view newsgroups.

Absolutely! Though I use GG from work because NNTP access is blocked. I'm
even thinking about Go To My PC to access the Usenet via my home system. It's
that bad.

In article ,
Oren wrote:

"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...t-Access-10801
0

Fiddley Dee :-/

Merely the latest reason to despise Cox. If I could get DSL, I'd do so
for internet and go with satellite TV. Been hating Cox for a wide
variety of reasons for 20 years or so.

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:55:04 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
Oren wrote:

"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...t-Access-10801
0

Fiddley Dee :-/

Merely the latest reason to despise Cox. If I could get DSL, I'd do so
for internet and go with satellite TV. Been hating Cox for a wide
variety of reasons for 20 years or so.

Wanna trade? I have DSL and satellite TV and they both suck. I was far
happier sending buckets of money to the crooks at Adelphia.

Oren wrote:
"Cox Communications is the latest carrier to inform their customers
they're ditching free Usenet access as of June 30. From an e-mail to
subscribers:"

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...-Access-108010

Fiddley Dee :-/

I like how they say they are ditching free access instead of saying that
they are removing part of the service that are paying for and not reducing
your bill.

Jon

Oren wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:54:34 -0500, "JimT" wrote:

ehh...never fear:

http://www.eternal-september.org/

Mission accomplished..

Just switched to them after my longtime usenet server (news.individual.net)
started getting really flakey. So far I'm very happy with the service, and
it's free!

Jon

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:36:16 -0500, "
wrote:

Absolutely! Though I use GG from work because NNTP access is blocked. I'm
even thinking about Go To My PC to access the Usenet via my home system. It's
that bad.

Have a look at this. The full version is free...

*TeamViewer - the All-In-One Solution for
Remote Access and Support over the Internet

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few
seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were
sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 60 million users
trust TeamViewer!

http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

In article ,
Oren wrote:

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:55:04 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
Oren wrote:


[snip 40% VAT Tax]

Fiddley Dee :-/

Merely the latest reason to despise Cox. If I could get DSL, I'd do so
for internet and go with satellite TV. Been hating Cox for a wide
variety of reasons for 20 years or so.

Where you been lately?

(You are late for hall monitor duties) I won't cover for you anymore!

All right then. I got distracted by my actual life there for a bit.

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:17:46 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:09:26 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

Worst of all possible worlds. (Unless, for some strange reason, you
simply *must* be able to access Usenet from other people's computers.)

If you simply must, use Agent and a news server like giganews.
My old agent 1.91 program runs as an EXE (as opposed to being
"installed") so you can carry the whole thing on a thumb drive and run
it on any machine you plug it into. When you pull out the thumb drive,
nothing remains on their machine. It all goes with you.

*Welcome to the Forte Agent 1.5 release!...

Text file:

"Forté is pleased to introduce the new Free Agent and Agent T-Shirts.
If you like the software, you'll love the shirts! These T-Shirts are
currently available for an introductory price of just $14.95 (U.S.)
plus shipping/handling. All T-Shirts are 100% pre-shrunk cotton"

v.1.5 IS the best ..

Oren wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:36:16 -0500, "
wrote:

Absolutely! Though I use GG from work because NNTP access is
blocked. I'm even thinking about Go To My PC to access the Usenet
via my home system. It's that bad.

Have a look at this. The full version is free...

*TeamViewer - the All-In-One Solution for
Remote Access and Support over the Internet

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few
seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were
sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 60 million users
trust TeamViewer!

http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

TeamViewer is very good, but has, for some, an important drawback: It's not
free for commercial use.

A better choice is Mikogo: (www.mikogo.com)
* Free for ANY use,
* Active and server users can interchange control,
* Up to eight viewers can connect simultaneously to facilitate training or
demonstration,
and, best of all,
* Requires that the remote site install NOTHING on their computer! They
simply access the Mikogo web site.

For our technical support, we ask our user to go to the Mikogo web site
(using Internet Explorer, Firefox, whatever) and enter the nine-digit code
we supply. PRESTO! We're in control of their computer. By entering a couple
of commands, the remote user can even control OUR computer.

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:17:09 -0700, "Jon Danniken"
wrote:

Oren wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:54:34 -0500, "JimT" wrote:

ehh...never fear:

http://www.eternal-september.org/

Mission accomplished..

Just switched to them after my longtime usenet server (news.individual.net)
started getting really flakey. So far I'm very happy with the service, and
it's free!

I've been using individual.net for five or six years (started when they were
free) and have never hand any issues with them. In fact, their customer
service is superb.

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:12:25 -0500, "HeyBub" wrote:

Oren wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:36:16 -0500, "
wrote:

Absolutely! Though I use GG from work because NNTP access is
blocked. I'm even thinking about Go To My PC to access the Usenet
via my home system. It's that bad.

Have a look at this. The full version is free...

*TeamViewer - the All-In-One Solution for
Remote Access and Support over the Internet

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few
seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were
sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 60 million users
trust TeamViewer!

http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

TeamViewer is very good, but has, for some, an important drawback: It's not
free for commercial use.

A better choice is Mikogo: (www.mikogo.com)
* Free for ANY use,
* Active and server users can interchange control,
* Up to eight viewers can connect simultaneously to facilitate training or
demonstration,
and, best of all,
* Requires that the remote site install NOTHING on their computer! They
simply access the Mikogo web site.

For our technical support, we ask our user to go to the Mikogo web site
(using Internet Explorer, Firefox, whatever) and enter the nine-digit code
we supply. PRESTO! We're in control of their computer. By entering a couple
of commands, the remote user can even control OUR computer.

I'll have to take a look at them. Not sure how they work though a few
firewalls at each end, but worth a look.