On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:18:26 -0400, Jerry Avins wrote
(in article <a6742$48e97572$30913@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> 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
>
their lack of response was one thing that had really surprised me. In the
past when I wrote to let them know they were three days behind I always
received an immediate reply and the problem was usually fixed within 24
hours.
Maybe they have improved their service and no longer have time to reply?
We are down to so few companies where we can get binaries so I hope
Teranews
makes it.
Lee
rarebirdyatverizondotnet
Park Ridge, NJ
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