FYI, machines within the attbi.com domain can connect to the NNTP server(s) named netnews.attbi.com and you may find some postings of interest related to this topic.
The best group is probably attbi.ne.techtalk.general ...but there are a number of others that might also provide info of interest, like maybe: attbi.users-unix attbi.discussion-attbiservice attbi.discussion-cablemodem attbi.discussion-email attbi.discussion-games attbi.discussion-general attbi.discussion-homenetworking attbi.discussion-newsgroup attbi.discussion-security attbi.users-cablemodem attbi.announcements These newsgroups used to be much better but the S/N ratio has deteriorated as The Great Unwashed have slowly infiltrated and many of the most knowledgeable people have consequently wandered away in frustration. Click-thru agreements don't always hold up in court but since some ignorant ComCast droid can hold your connection hostage while you work out your differences it would probably be nice to either stay on ComCast's good side or completely off their radar. BTW, I've heard that those stupid "wizards" don't do anything to your Windows PeeCee that you couldn't do by hand, like tweaking IP addrs and registry entries and such, so you might be able to skirt the issue entirely by doing it all by hand. That would presumably leave the previous agreement in force, yes? One of the things I read in attbi.ne.techtalk.general is that all a Linux user like me has to do is config different IP addrs for the POP, SMTP and NNTP servers, reportedly these: send email (SMTP): smtp.comcast.net receive email (POP3): pop3.comcast.net news (NNTP): news.comcast.giganews.com ...which, presumably would work for Windows, too, right? NOTICE: I have NOT verified that information and IANAL. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
