Comcast News Server Has Changed Name

Up until 7/05/08, I could use my news.comcast.net newsgroup NNTP server, but
it couldn't be reached after that. This was the name I was given by them and
the one that worked until that date. Now, their help page shows that their
news server is called: newsgroups.comcast.net . When I removed the old
subscription and added one with the new NNTP name, I got access again. If
anyone using Comcast keeps getting a "server cannot be contacted" message,
this may be the problem. You will have to re-subscribe to all your favorite
newsgroups, as they will be removed along with the old newsgroup account.
You wonder why Comcast wouldn't have notified their subscribers?

newsgroups.comcast.net traces to the giganews.com network.
Looks like Comcast has outsourced their NNTP service to Giganews.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Captain Aero" <CaptainAero@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:82EE9C65-4BF0-4F53-B8F6-7A692DD08ACF@microsoft.com...
>
> Up until 7/05/08, I could use my news.comcast.net newsgroup NNTP server, but
> it couldn't be reached after that. This was the name I was given by them and
> the one that worked until that date. Now, their help page shows that their
> news server is called: newsgroups.comcast.net . When I removed the old
> subscription and added one with the new NNTP name, I got access again. If
> anyone using Comcast keeps getting a "server cannot be contacted" message,
> this may be the problem. You will have to re-subscribe to all your favorite
> newsgroups, as they will be removed along with the old newsgroup account.
> You wonder why Comcast wouldn't have notified their subscribers?