said by ELRefugee :

Usenet isn't "going" anywhere. The world is simply being divided into haves and have-nots -- and almost the whole world is in that first category. America's major ISPs are forcing their customers into the second.

Fortunately plenty of smaller ISPs are still around. Buh bye Comcast.

said by CableTool :

Did your rate increase $7.99 when newsgroup access was added to accounts?

I've been a Comcast HSI subscriber for eight years, and newsgroups have been a part of the package Comcast has marketed that whole time.

Also when did Comcast raise CHSI prices?

I'm not sure how that's relevant, since we're talking about reduction in services without a commiserate reduction in price.

Now you have to pay $8.00 a month for service you were previously getting for free. Chances are you will not and many will not.

said by Welcome to Post :

Correction: nothing is free from a for-profit company. Newsgroups have been part of the internet package that Comcast markets. We are now facing a reduction in that package.

said by Rob :

So when Comcast went from 6/384 to 6/1 and 8/768 to 8/2, did your Internet rate go up? After all, nothing is free. So all of our rates must have gone up with the increase in speed.

said by quetwo :

Yes. About the same time my cap was lifted from 6/384 to 6/1, there was a price increase of about $5. While most people didn't have the timing as close as we did, we had our yearly "we need more money"-a-thon the same time they did the slight bump in upload speeds.

said by quetwo :

Yes. About the same time my cap was lifted from 6/384 to 6/1, there was a price increase of about $5. While most people didn't have the timing as close as we did, we had our yearly "we need more money"-a-thon the same time they did the slight bump in upload speeds.

said by ncherry :

Hmm, I expected this, anywhere they can save a dime they will and since so few people use it (I'm one of them) it wasn't a surprise. I'm just waiting for them to drop their mail service (hey you can get the likes of Google Mail and Yahoo Mail) and then their 'home pages'. If it wasn't for my wife needing the TV I'd dump them for cheaper DSL. Once it's a commodity it just a price difference.

'Scuse me while I go shopping for Newsgroup access.

Oh, and to the guy who suggested using a Blog. May I suggest you blog and Usenet (newsgroups) to see what the difference is. They are two different things.

said by Rob :

I wish they would drop e-mail.

said by tcope :

If Comcast is not going to provide access to Usenet... they should no longer claim that they provide Internet access.

Internet = www, email, Usenet.