Re: a.b.p.f., is it dead?

Jack Stein wrote:

>>> If Verison told me this, I would tell them a good option is Comcast, 
>>> which provides GREAT newsgroup service via a free Giganews account. 
>>
>>
>> Comcast's free Giganews access is limited to 2GB per month.  If you're 
>> interested in binaries, that limit will be hit very quickly.
> 
> 
> I'm VERY interested in binaries and I never hit the limit.  Not sure 
> why, because with the number of binaries I was getting every day, I 
> should have hit it, but never did.  At one time I was looking at 
> hundreds, possibly thousands of pictures every day, and never a whimper 
> from Comcast.
> 

A few years ago Verizon also gave up on managing there own newsgroup 
service and they contracted with Giganews.  There was no download limit 
on Giganews' news server through a Verizon account.

A number of different ISP have recently dropped the "alt" groups.  I'll 
be surprised if Comcast doesn't follow suit.

-- 
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
novasys@[EMAIL PROTECTED]