Time Warner Cable To Stop Offering Newsgroup Access

[Pardus]

Time Warner Cable To Stop Offering Newsgroup Access

Official announcement to come later in the month....
08:18AM Thursday Jun 05 2008 by Karl

An internal tipster drops me a line to note that Time Warner Cable/Roadrunner will be eliminating newsgroup access. The newsgroup ax is expected to fall before the end of the month, and my source says that an official announcement should go up on the Roadrunner website sometime around the sixteenth. Roadrunner has actually held on for some time, given many broadband ISPs stopped offering newsgroup access several years ago.

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[Joemonkey]

[vader]NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!![/vader]

 

[lokiju]

As in their own free access?

No biggie.

 

[yhelothar]

Verizon already botched their highly acclaimed newsgroup service years ago.
Most of it is incomplete, and they highly limit the speeds.

 

[Nitemare]

that fucking sucks

 

[NeoV]

their free service sucks anyway, full in incomplete posts and crappy retention

 

[sdifox]

Rogers dropped newsgroup years ago.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: NeoV
their free service sucks anyway, full in incomplete posts and crappy retention

umm about 100 day retention and > 50k newsgroups suck???

 

[nageov3t]

I wasn't even aware that isps offered free newsgroup service anymore.

that's all they mean, right? TW isn't blocking access to usenet somehow?

 

[Drekce]

This sucks so bad. I have used the RR newsgroups for a decade now.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: NeoV
their free service sucks anyway, full in incomplete posts and crappy retention

umm about 100 day retention and > 50k newsgroups suck???

Yeah, I was able to cancel my $15 a month service when I got roadrunner, only had to deal w/ a tad bit slower speeds.

 

[Special K]

Easynews: 20GB per month for $9.95 with rollover gigs, plus a web-based global search engine and file saving interface. :thumbsup:

 

[CptCrunch]

I hope insight doesn't do this. They use giganews servers, 200day retention, almost everything is complete, but the speed is limited to 190KBps

 

[SludgeFactory]

TW ended up offering really good usenet service where I used to live in NW Louisiana. Unfortunately Crapcast took over and ruined all that.

I guess the SOB's figure if they're going to be capping people at 40GB/month, what use do you have for a usenet feed.

 

[ChaoZ]

God I hope Comcast doesn't follow suit.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Drekce
This sucks so bad. I have used the RR newsgroups for a decade now.

w3rd

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: CptCrunch
I hope insight doesn't do this. They use giganews servers, 200day retention, almost everything is complete, but the speed is limited to 190KBps

Good god, 190KBps? I'd gladly cough up the $25 to break that! :laugh:

They don't need any caps because at such a low speed you'll never get squat anyway. Heh.

For OP, no big shock. Most ISPs dropped Usenet years ago. The cost of maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support it (binary size has grown something like 10X) just isn't worth it for like 1 or 2% of their users. I've been using pay services for years, even when my ISP did provide it.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
God I hope Comcast doesn't follow suit.

Too true.

 

[pcslookout]

This was bound to happen because it cost isps so much money to offer newsgroup access. So they decide to save money by getting rid of something.