Re: tin stopped working

"Matrix Mole" <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:24:50 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.network.tin.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Urs Janßen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 02:54:33PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>> Comcast has not responded to my query about problems
>> with news.comcast.net.
>
> if you can
>        telnet news.comcast.net 119
> tin should work, if you can't then something (server down, firewall, ...)
> blocks the connection.

I agree with the
          telnet news.comcast.net 119
idea.

Another question to bring up, is comcast one of those companies that
has removed newsgroups from their service being offered to their
members? If so, then you'll never get back in and will need to find
another nntp provider unfortunately.