Some Anon Guy
@sympatico.ca
| Sympatico will end usenet service on May 25
As of May 25, 2006, Bell Sympatico will discontinue its Usenet newsgroup service. All existing Sympatico newsgroups will be removed and we will no longer host a Usenet service.
»service.sympatico.ca/index.cfm?m···_id=5487
Going forward, we invite you to post messages on our web-based discussion forums available at »www.bell.ca/internetforum
For those who wish to keep using Usenet, NewsHosting (an unaffiliated Usenet provider) will provide Bell Sympatico customers up to 1 GB per month of Usenet service at no cost. Optional premium services, which can be purchased directly from NewsHosting, are also available. To sign up, or learn more about these services, visit »bell.newshosting.com/
For more information on the discontinuation of the Sympatico Usenet service, read our frequently asked questions. |
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dsfgg
@sympatico.ca | so this means i can download 1 gb of mp3's a month? |
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MisawaGQ
Divi Filius
Premium
join:2002-12-19
Mississauga | reply to Some Anon Guy
Minus the data from the headers. And only at 512kbps. |
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MacGyver
Bell Sucks
Premium,ExMod 2003-05
join:2001-10-14
Orleans, ON | reply to Some Anon Guy
Well this sucks royally. No more access to ott.forsale and ott.forsale.computing!  |
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HiVolt
Premium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
clubs:
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
| said by MacGyver  :Well this sucks royally. No more access to ott.forsale and ott.forsale.computing! Something wrong with the free Newshosting offer?
For those who wish to keep using Usenet, NewsHosting (an unaffiliated Usenet provider) will provide Bell Sympatico customers up to 1 GB per month of Usenet service at no cost.
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mau108
Mau
Premium
join:2001-10-07
Thornhill, ON
clubs: | reply to Some Anon Guy
»www.flashnewsgroups.com my friend.
8 connections (shareable), 13 usd a month. Can't get better then that.
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Some anon guy
@sympatico.ca | reply to HiVolt
> Something wrong with the free Newshosting offer?
Yes. Posting isin't allowed. |
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Some Anon Guy
@sympatico.ca | reply to mau108
> www.flashnewsgroups.com my friend.
> 13 usd a month
> Can't get better then that.
How about 0$ per month?
You're telling me that $13/month is better than 0$ / month? |
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corster
Premium
join:2002-02-23
Ottawa, ON
clubs:  | Monkey See Monkey Do. |
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BellVictim
Premium
join:2006-04-17 | reply to Some Anon Guy
Bell's new motto:
GIVING YOU LESS FOR YOUR MONEY
(Why am I not surprised here, by Bell).
(I wonder how long it'll be until they "no longer support email" - MSN sado-masochism is a good first step, eh?) |
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sss111
Premium
join:2003-09-02
Granby, Qc
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Anyone got it working ? filled the form, did not receive the confirmation email.
04/29/2006 16:17:27 SERVER=news.bell.newshosting.com, MSG=Auth: Username or Password is incorrect - The server rejected the authentication
triple verified the login info, tried 2 clients.
I want that Bourne Identity OST Now ! :P |
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Roop
join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON
·Cybersurf Corporat..
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for those of you who want to post text messages, i recommend google groups.
for those who want do download binaries newshosting has unlimited service for $15 USD.
don't kid yourselfs guys, google has been an alternative for text messages for some time now and bell never had any good retention/completion.
rogers dropped news service last year. this is no suprise. |
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Some Anon Guy
@sympatico.ca
| > for those of you who want to post text messages,
> i recommend google groups.
Web-based news reading/posting sucks, and with google you can't post anonymously (using non-functional e-mail addresses) or use different identities for different news groups.
> rogers dropped news service last year. this
> is no suprise.
The surprise is that Bell peers their feed with others (ie usenet costs them nothing) while Rogers (like most cable companies) can't really peer their usenet feed with anyone (all of their bandwidth is purchased, whereas Bell has traffic agreements with other networks). |
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albundyhere
join:2000-10-26
New York, NY | reply to Some Anon Guy
well, thats a shame. I've been using newsgroups even before there were binaries available. I will reconsider execulink as they have provided nothing but excellent service. |
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dirtyjeffer
Lest We Forget
Premium
join:2002-02-21
London, ON
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
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^^^that looks like an "ad" to me, but since it may be offering some assistance, i won't complain about it.
seriously, how many of sympatico's 2.2 million users use a newsgroup, or even know what one is.
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decx
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Vancouver, BC
·Bell Sympatico
| said by dirtyjeffer :^^^that looks like an "ad" to me, but since it may be offering some assistance, i won't complain about it. seriously, how many of sympatico's 2.2 million users use a newsgroup, or even know what one is. Part of the decline of users of Bell/Sympatico's usenet servers aren't due to a decline in popularity of newsgroups, but rather the drastic decline in quality of usenet services provided by Bell via their servers. The lack of completion makes Bell servers rather useless. It's not only binaries that suffers from this problem, but some text groups as well. I personally stopped using the servers a few years ago. For me the only thing the servers were useful for were accessing local groups like sympatico.highspeed and even those had the occasional completion and sync problems.
However Bell was still good enough to get it's users some form of usenet access via Newshosting rather than leaving their users to find their own alternative like some other large ISPs. |
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XoX
join:2003-08-19
Sherbrooke, QC
·TekSavvy Solutions..
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said by dirtyjeffer :^^^that looks like an "ad" to me, but since it may be offering some assistance, i won't complain about it. seriously, how many of sympatico's 2.2 million users use a newsgroup, or even know what one is. Geez what a pathetic excuse... Not only does Sympatico charge more for less than many other provider... It's the only one I know about that try to sell something to it's customer almost every time they call.
So what because not everyone use it, it's not need it? So that mean they could remove what's left of their pathetic mail service if they keep thinking the same way...
Great keep it up Sympatico... |
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dirtyjeffer
Lest We Forget
Premium
join:2002-02-21
London, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| said by XoX :So what because not everyone use it, it's not need it? if they don't maintain it, or support it, it saves them money...why waste money on something the vast majority of their customers never use.
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"I have tried to see things from your point of view, but no matter how hard I try, or what I do, I just can't get my head that far up my ass." |
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docbg
join:2004-03-10
Hamilton, ON | reply to Some Anon Guy
Re: Sympatico will end usenet service on May 25
Has anyone been able to activate with NewsHosting?
I registered but never received my activation e-mail. |
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