Re: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble

[Alan Meyer]

Beartooth <address@hidden> wrote
>
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:32:46 -0700, Travis wrote:
>
> > Verizon has been my ISP since 1999 and then and now has had their own
> > news servers.
>
>     Then either that changed, or I'm confusing Verizon with some
> other provider; either is possible. All I know for sure is that *some*
> provider that I had did its news by subcontract, so that I was using
> giganews at second hand.

Comcast used to use Giganews, then dropped them and, indeed, all
news service.  I think Verizon may still operate its own news
servers, but they dropped all alt.* groups.  There is a story
about it here:

   http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html

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Alan Meyer
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