Apparently somebody from Comcast's new customer support initiative (dubbed "Comcast cares" and frequently seen perusing Twitter) saw our lamentations yesterday about RCN canceling newsgroup service without bothering to tell customers. They've stopped by our Comcast forum to note that Comcast too is discontinuing free newsgroup service starting, well, right now for new users. Existing customers will continue to be able to access the service until October 25th, after which, you're on your own. The compete alert:
The Comcast Newsgroups service, powered by Giganews will be discontinued as of September 17th. Existing customers will continue to be able to access the service until October 25th. This decision is in alignment with other Internet Service Providers that have recently terminated their Newsgroups service due to the declining popularity of Newsgroups as customers chose other methods, such as RSS feeds and web browsing to access information.
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