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Timothy Daniels

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Oct 31, 2009, 12:32:23 PM10/31/09
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Does Earthlink still have Usenet servers, or does it
provide free access to a Usenet service? I've just
spent an hour speaking on the phone with Indian
customer service reps who don't have a clue what
Usenet or newsgroups or NNTP are.

*TimDaniels*


Timothy Daniels

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Oct 31, 2009, 12:58:45 PM10/31/09
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Well, I finally spoke with "Ryan" in Bangladesh who
says he'll send me information on how to set up my
OE v.6 for newsgroup service. Apparently, Earthlink
still has news service. My current service, from Giga-
News through RoadRunner, may or may not be an
Earthlink service - I don't know - and neither do the
Earthlink reps know. But it will be a major factor in
deciding to switch to Earthlink DSL or go with AT&T
or DSLextreme. My introductory cable subscription
ends soon, and $47/mo is too much to pay for 6Mbps.

*TimDaniels*

Gary Woods

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Oct 31, 2009, 1:46:21 PM10/31/09
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"Timothy Daniels" <NoS...@SpamMeKnot.biz> wrote:

>Does Earthlink still have Usenet servers, or does it
>provide free access to a Usenet service?

Yes; from an EL IP, demonews.mindspring.com works fine.


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Ant

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Oct 31, 2009, 5:06:30 PM10/31/09
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On 10/31/2009 9:32 AM PT, Timothy Daniels typed:

Yes, ELN uses Giganews as its outsourced usenet/newsgroup service with
no caps (only two connections max. though).
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Mark Blain

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Oct 31, 2009, 6:23:25 PM10/31/09
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"Timothy Daniels" <NoS...@SpamMeKnot.biz> wrote in news:_J6dnVnXDdgE-
3HXnZ2dnU...@earthlink.com:

Giganews provides earthlink's Usenet news service under contract (they've
switched companies a couple of times).

Use server name "nntp.earthlink.net" and login with your current earthlink
email account name (your...@earthlink.net) and password.

Ant

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Oct 31, 2009, 6:29:18 PM10/31/09
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On 10/31/2009 3:23 PM PT, Mark Blain typed:

> Giganews provides earthlink's Usenet news service under contract (they've
> switched companies a couple of times).
>
> Use server name "nntp.earthlink.net" and login with your current earthlink
> email account name (your...@earthlink.net) and password.

I wonder how long this contract will last. I hope ELN will never drop
it, but I doubt it will last. I love it too. :(
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Timothy Daniels

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Oct 31, 2009, 9:38:48 PM10/31/09
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"Mark Blain" answered:
> "Timothy Daniels" asked:

>
>> Does Earthlink still have Usenet servers, or does it
>> provide free access to a Usenet service? I've just
>> spent an hour speaking on the phone with Indian
>> customer service reps who don't have a clue what
>> Usenet or newsgroups or NNTP are.
>>
>> *TimDaniels*
>
> Giganews provides earthlink's Usenet news service under
> contract (they've switched companies a couple of times).
>
> Use server name "nntp.earthlink.net" and login with your
> current earthlink email account name (your...@earthlink.net)
> and password.

OK, that's what I do now. I guess my Earthlink cable
service via Time Warner's RoadRunner gives me Giganews
by virtue of my Earthlink subscription and not the RoadRunner
Internet service. Strangely, I get billed through Time Warner
and Time Warner billing reps tell me that I am a Time Warner
customer and not an Earthlink customer. TW apparently feels
that Earthlink was just a "finder" for them. But it will be that
Giganews service that will keep me with Earthlink when I
switch to DSL. Earthlink, are you listening? AT&T are you
listening?

*TimDaniels*

*TimDaniels*


Steve Urbach

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Nov 1, 2009, 7:49:53 AM11/1/09
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:38:48 -0700, "Timothy Daniels" <NoS...@SpamMeKnot.biz>
wrote:

Tim
Simple Question.
If your main e-mail address is one of the Earthlink companies (See the list on
the list linked on the logon page of EL Web Mail)?
Then Yes.


Gary Woods

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Nov 1, 2009, 9:40:05 AM11/1/09
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"Timothy Daniels" <NoS...@SpamMeKnot.biz> wrote:

>Strangely, I get billed through Time Warner
>and Time Warner billing reps tell me that I am a Time Warner
>customer and not an Earthlink customer. TW apparently feels
>that Earthlink was just a "finder" for them. But it will be that
>Giganews service that will keep me with Earthlink when I
>switch to DSL.

I have the same kind of account; TW provides the physical connection,
services the modem, etc. Everything else is EL. I've been very happy with
it, especially since EL provides more email addresses and personal web
space for the same price. Dunno what piece of that TW gets, but less is
better...

Andy

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Nov 2, 2009, 4:20:55 AM11/2/09
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not true i use 4 daily from my road runner account its road runner who
droped its news groups all togeather

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Andy

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Nov 2, 2009, 4:22:12 AM11/2/09
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Correct Tim i use my news groups via earthlink over my road runner
subscription:)

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Ant

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Nov 2, 2009, 5:27:40 AM11/2/09
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Hmm, I wonder why I get limit reached when I use more than two
connections at once. :(

On 11/2/2009 1:20 AM PT, Andy typed:

> not true i use 4 daily from my road runner account its road runner who
> droped its news groups all togeather
>
> "Ant" <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote in message
> news:UKOdneHq-51LO3HX...@earthlink.com...
>> On 10/31/2009 9:32 AM PT, Timothy Daniels typed:
>>
>>> Does Earthlink still have Usenet servers, or does it
>>> provide free access to a Usenet service? I've just
>>> spent an hour speaking on the phone with Indian
>>> customer service reps who don't have a clue what
>>> Usenet or newsgroups or NNTP are.
>> Yes, ELN uses Giganews as its outsourced usenet/newsgroup service with no
>> caps (only two connections max. though).
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Andy

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Nov 3, 2009, 2:13:46 AM11/3/09
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maby a setting in youre news reader what is the name of the program you use?

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Ant

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Nov 3, 2009, 4:06:29 AM11/3/09
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Pan. What do you use?

On 11/2/2009 11:13 PM PT, Andy typed:

> maby a setting in youre news reader what is the name of the program you use?
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Andy

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Nov 4, 2009, 2:20:04 AM11/4/09
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I use out look express for my text groups and Agent pro aka agent for my
binaries:)


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Ant

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Nov 5, 2009, 9:43:24 AM11/5/09
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On 11/3/2009 11:20 PM PT, Andy typed:

> I use out look express for my text groups and Agent pro aka agent for my
> binaries:)

Ah.
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Timothy Daniels

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Nov 15, 2009, 3:49:48 AM11/15/09
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Strange things have been happening.

For 2 days, I couldn't access Earthlink's GigaNews
news service. I could connect everywhere else, though.
I called Earthlink to see if it had to do with GigaNews
assuming that my introductory period is over, and with
Time Warner telling me that my introductory period is
over. Well, not the front line rep, not her supervisor,
and not the supervisor who called me back new that an
Earthlink subscription included news service. All
adamantly denied it. The latter even challenged me to
tell her the name of the news server and the username
that I supposedly have been using so she could show
that it had nothing to do with Earthlink. She finally realized
that I might be right when I told her that the server's name
was "news.west.earthlink.net" and that the user name was
my Earthlink email address. She wrote up a service ticket
and said that an Earthlink rep would call me in 1 to 3 days.

So a day later, I can connect to GigaNews again, although
no one ever called me. And... Time Warner has sent me
a monthly bill in which the amount is $31.36 instead of the
$29.95 that it has been. But when I call TW, the automatic
system says my next bill is for $28.86 - LOWER than it
has been up to now. And I'm still getting 5.8Mbps. Go
figger. It appears, at least for now, that Time Warner has
backed off on raising my monthly bill to $42 for 6Mbps,
and I can still access GigaNews.

*TimDaniels*


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