From: Matthew D Swank
Subject: OT: Google requiring login to just to read usenet?
Date:
Message-ID: <YbVFk.5502$_G.2974@newsfe04.iad>
Has anyone else had this happen? I can kind of understand it for Google
Groups based groups, but on the heels of comcast customers losing their
Usenet access, this seems especially obnoxious.
I miss Deja News.
Matt
--
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
-- Shakespeare
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:59:20 GMT, Matthew D Swank
<··················@gmail.com> wrote:
>Has anyone else had this happen? I can kind of understand it for Google
>Groups based groups, but on the heels of comcast customers losing their
>Usenet access, this seems especially obnoxious.
???
I don't use Google groups much, but I just checked all the groups I
follow normally and I don't have to log in to read them - to post, yes
- but not to read.
I'm also on Comcast and I haven't lost Usenet access ... though they
did just lower the download limit again. I use Motzarella when I'm
traveling (like now) because Comcast restricts Usenet access to within
their own network.
>I miss Deja News.
Ditto. Google mucked it up when they acquired it.
George
From: Matthew D Swank
Subject: It's all my fault, Was: OT: Google requiring login to just to read usenet?
Date:
Message-ID: <s_VFk.5507$_G.4068@newsfe04.iad>
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:33:19 -0400, George Neuner wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:59:20 GMT, Matthew D Swank
> <··················@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Has anyone else had this happen? I can kind of understand it for Google
>>Groups based groups, but on the heels of comcast customers losing their
>>Usenet access, this seems especially obnoxious.
>
> ???
>
> I don't use Google groups much, but I just checked all the groups I
> follow normally and I don't have to log in to read them - to post, yes -
> but not to read.
Ok, after purging my browser settings I am no longer getting the google
groups login screen while accessing Google Groups articles.
Nevermind,
Matt
--
You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body.
In article <··································@4ax.com>,
George Neuner <········@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:59:20 GMT, Matthew D Swank
> <··················@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone else had this happen? I can kind of understand it for Google
> >Groups based groups, but on the heels of comcast customers losing their
> >Usenet access, this seems especially obnoxious.
>
> ???
>
> I don't use Google groups much, but I just checked all the groups I
> follow normally and I don't have to log in to read them - to post, yes
> - but not to read.
>
> I'm also on Comcast and I haven't lost Usenet access ... though they
> did just lower the download limit again. I use Motzarella when I'm
> traveling (like now) because Comcast restricts Usenet access to within
> their own network.
Comcast's Usenet termination takes effect Oct 24.
--
Barry Margolin, ······@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:45:49 -0400, Barry Margolin
<······@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>Comcast's Usenet termination takes effect Oct 24.
Hmmm. I haven't received any notice of it. How did you all find out?
I admit that I pay little attention to Comcast's portal site.
George
From: Raffael Cavallaro
Subject: Re: OT: Google requiring login to just to read usenet?
Date:
Message-ID: <gcc46j$rba$1@aioe.org>
On 2008-10-05 15:41:21 -0400, George Neuner <········@comcast.net> said:
> Hmmm. I haven't received any notice of it. How did you all find out?
> I admit that I pay little attention to Comcast's portal site.
I'm a comcast customer and I'd already had so many problems with their
usenet feed that I had switched to a free server (nntp.aioe.org) a
couple of months before comcast announced their usenet termination.
None too soon as it turns out.
In article <··································@4ax.com>,
George Neuner <········@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:45:49 -0400, Barry Margolin
> <······@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> >Comcast's Usenet termination takes effect Oct 24.
>
> Hmmm. I haven't received any notice of it. How did you all find out?
> I admit that I pay little attention to Comcast's portal site.
I think I first heard about it a couple of weeks ago in the
alt.online-services.usenet newsgroup, or maybe it was first mentioned in
the Usenet forum at forums.comcast.net (don't go looking for it, they
removed this forum during last week's reorganization of the forums).
They started sending out emails to customers a few days ago, I think I
got it on Friday. It usually takes them about a week or so to send mail
to all 10 million HSI customers.
--
Barry Margolin, ······@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***