Steve,

In my case, the Giganews account has a different password than does the
Comcast account...

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"Steve" wrote in message
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OrchidKitty wrote:
Yes, Comcast is my ISP. Because of business-related emails, I probably
shouldn't ditch Comcast, but if there is another way to access
newsgroups, I'd LOVE to know about it and how to set it up.

After reading Ray's reply, I did a little looking around on the web. I'll
copy below something that I found. I happen to use Netscape for my mail
(and newsgroups) but I would assume you do not.
If you use outlook express for your e-mail, you can use that to read
newsgroups. Perhaps someone here who uses outlook express can get you
started. (confirm that it is what you use)
It looks like Comcast works just like Adelphia (my ISP) and does go
through Giganews. That's good news for you! You will love it once you get
going.

Steve




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After fiddling around with Google Groups interface, which is not too
convenient if one decides to read the latest posts one by one, I finally
decided to figure out where Comcast hides its NNTP news server.
Apparently, they outsource the news to GigaNews and here’s their
Comcast-specific page.

NNTP server for Comcast: news.comcast.giganews.com
Username for Comcast newsgroups:
Password for Comcast newsgroups: the same as password for your
@comcast.net account when you signed up with them