Re: Free UseNet: Aioe seems a good alternative

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 'Due to our complete incompetence and inability to maintain a reliable
> Usenet feed.... the only way for us to save 
> face is to completely remove news feeds from our offerings. This way 
> customers can no longer complain about our crappy news feed. Problem 
> solved the Time Warner way.'

Not that this is particularly unique to TW. I've had multiple ISPs in
the past who probably would have been better advised to take that
approach. I ended up going to third-party usenet servers because I found
it worth the $5 or so per month to get service from someone who had that
as their primary business and thus had motivation to keep it working.

I happen to be on TW for my ISP at the moment, but I never got around to
trying their usenet feed, as already had a 3rd-party one when I moved
ISPs to TW. My prior ISP didn't have a usenet feed; the one before that
had one, but I got tired of having to complain all the time (and usually
to customer service reps who had no idea what a usenet service was, even
though their company offered one.)

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