Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote > > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:32:46 -0700, Travis wrote: > > > Verizon has been my ISP since 1999 and then and now has had their own > > news servers. > > Then either that changed, or I'm confusing Verizon with some > other provider; either is possible. All I know for sure is that *some* > provider that I had did its news by subcontract, so that I was using > giganews at second hand.
Comcast used to use Giganews, then dropped them and, indeed, all news service. I think Verizon may still operate its own news servers, but they dropped all alt.* groups. There is a story about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html -- Alan Meyer amey...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
