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Posted by HeyBub on June 17, 2008, 9:44 pm
JimR wrote:
>> Dear Verizon Online Customer,
>>
>> As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about
>> some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup
>> service. On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings
>> to
>> only offer
>> groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The
>> 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users
>> will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups
>> using our Newsgroup service.
>>
>> comp.*
>> humanities.*
>> misc.*
>> news.*
>> rec.*
>> sci.*
>> soc.*
>> talk.*
>>
>>
>> Rich
>> --
>> "You can lead them to LINUX
>> but you can't make them THINK"
>> Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586
>
> I had a similar problem with Embarq. They dropped newsgroups
> altogether and changed from Earthlink for e-mail service to their own
> e-mail server, meaning everyone would get a new e-mail address.
>
> Instead, I kept Embarq DSL as my ISP, but signed up directly with
> Earthlink to use their e-mail and newsgroup service. It costs
> $9.95/month, but was worth it to me to keep from having to change all
> my e-mail contacts.
> Unhappy with Embarq's change, I also downgraded the speed of the
> Embarq DSL, which saved me about $20 / month, but I don't see any
> difference in my normal computer ops. So I kept my Earthlink e-mail
> and all of the newsgroups, and saved about $10 / month.
You are correct. There is no necessary connection between you internet
connectivity provider and your ISP. If you don't like Verizon as your ISP,
switch to Earthlink or some other ISP.
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