comcast news servers

[junkforjerry at hotmail.com (jerry)]

I have been told that Comcast is bound by the ATTBI merger agreement to keep
the newsgroup arraignment the same for migrated ATTBI customers for a
certain period of time (not sure how long). New Comcast customers have to go
through Giganews with Comcast - which limits their free download to 1 G per
month.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy M. Lyons" <lyons at digitalvoodoo.org>
To: <dsr at tao.merseine.nu>
Cc: "Clint M. Sand" <clint at neotrance.dyndns.org>; <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: 28 July, 2003 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: comcast news servers


> Actually,  I heard through the grapevine that Comcast was planning to
scrap
> the old netnews servers in the near future.  Haven't been able to get a
> confirmation/denial from them though.
>
> --Tim
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 at 11:32 -0000 dsr at tao.merseine.nu was heard to utter:
>
> > From: dsr at tao.merseine.nu
> > To: Timothy M. Lyons <lyons at digitalvoodoo.org>
> > Cc: Clint M. Sand <clint at neotrance.dyndns.org>, discuss at blu.org
> > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:32:27 +0000
> > Subject: Re: comcast news servers
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:20:03PM -0400, Timothy M. Lyons wrote:
> > > Comcast uses Giganews for feeds.  You'll need to setup an account with
them
> > > from the following page:
> > >
> > > http://online.comcast.net/giganews/
> >
> > This is not true if you are a former ATTBI/MediaOne customer.
> >
> > -dsr-
> >
> >
>
> --
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> ---
> Timothy M. Lyons, CISSP
> lyons at digitalvoodoo dot org
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