darrylr
join:2003-02-10
Nepean, ON | reply to surflord
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec
umm....
Did you see my post 3 up in this very thread?
-Darryl |
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retiredat44
North San Diego County
join:2002-08-13
Vista, CA
|  reply to sbrook
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec 15
I put it this way, I am happy if it will take the worst people off Usenet... having had nasty vicsous creepy stalkers in the past I hope that these bastards have there access cutoff. As for good people, sorry, but we are all getting screwed by ISP's one way or another...
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darrylr
join:2003-02-10
Nepean, ON
| Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec
How is it going to get anyone like that off usenet? There are tons of providers out there. If someone really wants access to newsgroups it is simple to get.
That is a BS excuse they are using. They just want to cut back on their spending so they can make more money. Since so few people use newsgroups they probably don't expect much of a backlash. I bet 80-90% of people on Rogers have never even heard of newsgroups nonetheless have a clue how to use them.
-Darryl |
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Robert H
@cable.rogers | reply to retiredat44
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec 15
What a misguided person you seem to be !
All it will do is make the pervs buy faster batter more reliable feeds to get thier fix. |
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sbrook
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
H0H 0H0
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
Host:
Rogers
Bell Canada
| reply to retiredat44
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec
said by retiredat44  :I put it this way, I am happy if it will take the worst people off Usenet... having had nasty vicsous creepy stalkers in the past I hope that these bastards have there access cutoff. As for good people, sorry, but we are all getting screwed by ISP's one way or another... I too have had creepy people attempt to creep me out in newsgroups before ... but stopping serving newsgroups isn't going to stop these people. It's like a burglar ... if you burglar proof your house, they'll only move next door ... it's not going to stop them burgling.
It's a sham reason. |
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will98
@cable.rogers | AGAIN,
RECHECK the FAQ. Rogers is not using the Child PORN reason there anymore. It was a lame excuse anyway. |
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corster
Premium
join:2002-02-23
Ottawa, ON
clubs: 
| they thought it would justify it, but it's not slipping through the cracks, so theyre going to use the outdated excuse...
if it was outdated, why would people pay for it?
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sstackho
join:2004-07-22
Toronto, ON
| reply to sbrook
People. Consider moving to Sympatico. I was a Rogers user since 1997, and I resisted switching for years. When the 60GB cap came in (threatened or real, it didn't matter), that was my last straw. I crossed my fingers, moved to Sympatico and ExpressVu, and it's been just fine. I know that the Sympatico experience varies for different people depending on the distance from the "central office" and all that, but when it's good, it's good.
For my internet usage, I use pay-by-download from Astraweb. US$10 for 25 gigabytes, which has no time expiration. Downloading headers does not count towards the download amount. I paid US$10 months ago, and am nowhere near through it yet. However, I'm less likely to download multiple gigabytes on a lark like I used to. |
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yourself12345678
@cable.rogers
| reply to sbrook
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec 15
You people are pathetic. bitching about some stupid news groups that really doesn't contain anything more than crap. Give your head a shake. if you are that un happy with ther service switch why wait do it now. And I am sure once you do switch we will still have to listen to you bitch. Pretty funny to see this crap. |
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mordin
42 inches of 1080p
Premium
join:2005-05-28
Moncton, NB
| reply to adam242
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec
said by adam242 :
Have you seen how many other providers there are out there? There are dozens of dsl providers. In my area alone i think i can choose from about 20.
Must be nice living in an area like that. Down here on the east coast we have 2 high speed choices - Rogers & Aliant. Aliant lists new groups but doesn't say if they include binaries. Being that their service is so similar to Bell Sympatico I would think all they provide are text based.
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dl0711
join:2004-06-27
London, ON
1 edit | reply to sbrook
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec 15
I wonder what if we all talk to Rogers Share holders and tell them that with what rogers is doing its best to Cash-in there shares NOW before its to late. lets see how rogers responds to that. |
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scott2525
@cable.rogers
| Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec
"I wonder what if we all talk to Rogers Share holders and tell them that with what rogers is doing its best to Cash-in there shares NOW before its to late. lets see how rogers responds to that."
Yeah, Yeah, lets do that. You have a list of there names and phones numbers. We can start calling them tomorrow. I'm sure they will listen to you closely when you tell them Rogers 1 million customers are going to leave. Anymore bright ideas? |
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dl0711
join:2004-06-27
London, ON
1 edit | lol you don't need a List.. just the news ( News papers, TV News) They always read/watch to see how there stocks are doing so if we all make a letter addressed to Rogers share holders and give to to the news I bet ya they will post/air it. |
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accat13
join:2004-05-01
Mississauga, ON
| reply to sbrook
Well its been a little over 30 hrs. since I dropped this bombshell on the forum.I'm happy to see I'm not the only PO'D customer.I was just wondering if anyone received any official notice from rogers about the changes.Maybe they were waiting to first cancel then tell the customers..Typically customer service said they didn't even realize it was happening(ya right)..Well I think there are many people who are fed up with rogers and are now looking elsewhere.I do think its possible to find an isp with the same speeds,but maybe not full usenet service.Looks like I will be hunting for the same speed or better but cheaper.The savings will pay for usenet.Like previously mention bundles are great but when a customer leaves they usually take the full package with them.(its funny how very recently I came close to using the phone service)It will be a cold day in hell when that happens...PS Ted its still the SKYDOME and always will be... |
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scott2525
@cable.rogers | "Typically customer service said they didn't even realize it was happening(ya right)"
YA THAT IS RIGHT. They are typically the last to know anything. |
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drunkgoat
join:2004-04-18
1 edit | .......................... |
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will98
@cable.rogers
| "If Rogers is truly concerned and sincer about the Child porn issue and they are cancling usenet out of the goodness of their black hearts, why don't they take all the money they are going to save from axing giganews and give it to chairity, or child porn victums group."
And once AGAIN, recheck the FAQ they removed that reason. |
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drunkgoat
join:2004-04-18 | reply to drunkgoat
HAHAHAHA this is funny.
Roger's is probably monitoring this discussion because they've removed any mention of child porn from their FAQ.
Dumbasses. |
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mordin
42 inches of 1080p
Premium
join:2005-05-28
Moncton, NB
| reply to accat13
said by accat13 :I was just wondering if anyone received any official notice from rogers about the changes. They are even making it hard to find on the FAQ page: »shoprogersfaq.custhelp.com/cgi-b···_by=dflt
If you go to the Rogers HS FAQ page and select 'Newsgroups' in the drop down box below 'High-Speed Internet' then click search (leave the Keyword blank) and you get nothing about the usenet service ending. You have to leave 'All Sup-categories' in the drop down box and do a 'Keyword Search' for usenet to get the information.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any cheap Canadian dial-up services that offer access to binary newsgroups? Was wondering if you'd be able to access the dial-up NGs using the Rogers HS service.
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bryce111
join:2005-07-28
London, ON
| reply to sbrook
Re: Rogers DISCONTINUING Usenet service as of Dec 15
ROFL At first I was pissed off when I read this thread title but I did get a good laugh out of all the comments. The last thing keeping me from switching away from Rogers was the usenet which I used as a fills server.
That's the end of that though. Time to get sympatico and spend the difference on usenet. |
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