News from where?

  • Thread starter Thread starter JimL
  • Start date Start date
J

JimL

I just got broadband for the first time - Comcast. I can't find anything
about news subscriptions. I'm on here now through my dial-up connection.

How do people get news when on broadband?

Thanks
 
JimL said:
I just got broadband for the first time - Comcast. I can't find anything
about news subscriptions. I'm on here now through my dial-up connection.

How do people get news when on broadband?

Thanks
Click to expand...

Hello Jim:

Comcast stopped their own NNTP feed from Giganews long ago. Their
motivations are debatable, but their published stance was "to protect
the children".

However, every NNTP server (free or paid) is available to you through
Comcast.

Try Googling for the servers. Many will mention Giganews,
eternal-september, aioe, and many fine others. Editorializing: Please
don't use Google Groups as many of us filter the GG out for spam
protection.

Best wishes,

Pete
 
Daave said:
This server is good (and free) for text newsgroups:

http://www.eternal-september.org/
Click to expand...


Thanks, guys. Problem solved. I tried it once before but it didn't work
then - I just now got news by trying it again. All I did was uncheck where
the properties said, "Always connect to this account using:" Then the
servers I was getting through dial-up came up on the broadband connection.
It just bypassed my old dial-up source.

Odd that it didn't work the first time I tried it.

Thanks
 
JimL said:
I just got broadband for the first time - Comcast. I can't find anything
about news subscriptions. I'm on here now through my dial-up connection.

How do people get news when on broadband?

Thanks
Click to expand...
Comcast no longer offers this. I use http://www.astraweb.com/ I paid the $10 for
25gig over a year ago and finally used one gig. I subscribe to two binary groups.

Chris
 
Back
Top