[PLUG] comcast news servers?

[Russ GilmanHunt]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alan wrote:
> I had heard a rumor that Comcast was switching to Giganews for their
> newsfeed.  Had not confirmed it since I will not buy Internet service
> from them.  (And I will drop them for cable when I can afford to get
> what I want.)

This rumor is true. I had to configure my stupid windows news reader
with stupid authentication stuff; and it's a giganews feed. You get a
free gigabyte of transfer as a comcast client, you're cut off from the
feed after that (for the month).

Russ GH