[OT] News Server Help

[Benjamin Scott]

  WARNING: I'm being my usual tactless self here.  :-)

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, at 11:24pm, numberwhun at comcast.net wrote:
> For those of you who have Comcast cable internet, you are probably aware
> that there was a recent change in their service regarding their newsserver
> for news groups.

  I didn't even know they provided a Usenet feed.  :)

> Again, why pay when it was FREE before.  

  There is no such thing as "free".  You were paying for something before,
and you're paying for something now.  The "something" has changed.  This
happens all the time in the world.

  As much as I hate to agree with a monopoly like Comcast (and believe me, I
know how much they suck), I really can't say they're out-of-line here.  2
gigabytes a month is a crapload of newsfeed.  That's way above any
reasonable "consumer" expectation for news.

  I'm a current Comcast customer myself (not because I like Comcast, but
because I hate Verizon more), and frankly, I don't want to pay for Comcast
to maintain a huge Usenet server to satisfy a few high-volume users like
yourself.  If you're gonna pull that much traffic, pay for it yourself.

  Information may want to be free, but infrastructure wants cash.

> Ok, now that I have made the long story long instead of short, I was just
> wondering if anyone here knows of a nice, free new server that allows
> unlimited downloads/uploads, without monitoring?

  Do you know where I might find a bank that just hands out big bags of
money to anyone who asks?

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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