usenet via fairpoint?

[David Rysdam]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:36:56 -0400, "Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...I got some HTML that looked legit, so maybe you could fiddle
> with your browser's User Agent string.  The User Agent Switcher
> plugin is fairly painless to install and use for such purposes,
> though I'm happy to report that I need to use it much less
> frequently than in years past as it seems that there are fewer
> sites suffering that sort of dainbramage these days, though
> fairpoint.com may still be one of them...

Oh yeah, I think when the switch first happened a few years ago I
determined that I could do that. But I'm really more inclined to just
decline to do business with a tech company so incompetent. And if they
are actually *mal*competent (i.e. deliberately excluding anyone not
using IE), I'm even less inclined to trick them into letting me send
them money.

Of course, I still *am* doing business with them. And not even getting
my money's worth, if they do have nntp that I just can't use for some
reason. Which is why I raised the possibility of alternative ISPs.