Re: tin stopped working

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 07:24:50AM -0700, Matrix Mole wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Urs Jan?en <[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.

I tried that command, but never got a console prompt. I did get a
message that the connection timed out.

I got no message from Comcast saying that they were discontinuing
newsgroups.