[Eeyore]

Richard Crowley wrote:

"Ed Anson" wrote ...
Thanks for the link. I see from it that they are planning to just quietly
drop the service on October 25. Perhaps they're relying on Usenet to
distribute their notice? :-P

They likely don't know exactly which customers are using NNTP.
Doing the traces to identify the NNTP customers would likely raise
complaints of big-brother spying.
Notifying everyone (99% of whom don't even know what NNTP
is) would likely just create thousands of completely useless questions
from clueless, non-NNTP customers.

Comcast is also noted for being over-agressive in blocking "spam"
email. Many web hosting providers warn that sending email to
anyone on comcast is intermittently blocked by apparently random
actions by comcast.

I think it is probably better to get a few more spam emails than to
lose legitimate messages because my ISP is blocking that source
today. YMMV.

For exactly these reasons, and the ease of moving ISP (the market is more
liberalised it seems in the UK) serious internet users here now typically
purchase a domain of their own for mail at minimum. If you have a website post
your email address as a GIF or jpeg at least as a minimum security measure (not
a link) to prevent spammers' web-bots picking it up.

Graham