Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:13:31 -0400, Jerry Avins wrote
> (in article <7cc68$48e652bb$4281@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
>> Martin Jensen wrote:
>>> Comcast finally notified me today that it is cutting off newsgroup
>>> service October 25th.
>>>
>>> The Comcast service is provided through Giganews, and Comcast is
>>> pointing us that way, saying Giganews is making a special offer. Also
>>> saying we currently get 2GB of downloads monthly and that Giganews is
>>> offering 2GB for $7.99 a month.
>>>
>>> Details are at < www.giganews.com/comcast-special.html >.
>>>
>>> Anybody think this is a good deal?
>> No. My ISP also dropped newsgroups, and I looked around. You'll note
>> that I post now through Tera News using their free service ($4 start-up
>> fee). They attach an ad tag to my posts, and it took over a week before
>> I could post, but that's over now. They also have monthly-fee services
>> that allow more activity and might be free of the piggy-back ad line.
>> Their cheapest fee service is $4 a month, and it's probably better than
>> what you're accustomed to. http://www.teranews.com
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>
> Hi Jerry,
>
> I used free TeraNews for awhile. The service was erratic leaning toward
bad.
> Most of the time it took two to three days for a post to show up, if it
ever
> showed. It also seemed that retention time was only an hour or so on
some
> days. The worse thing was that the email address I used when signing up
with
> TeraNews became a spam dump. TeraNews registration was the only place I
had
> ever used that particular email address.
>
> Because service was so bad I upgraded to that (now gone) $29. a year
account.
> A waste of money since the service there was just as bad. When the year
was
> up I tried to go back to the free teranews account that I had paid that
> $4.00 for but I could never get a reply from them.
>
> I signed up with giganews a few days ago. I am happy with that, so far.
Thanks for the heads up. So far, so good. I'll wait and watch and see
how it goes. I emailed them several times about not being able to post
and never got a response.
Jerry
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