Most ISPs are removing news servers. In fact, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, etc. have stopped providing news servers.
Their rationale is because of child porn, they no longer support news servers. Good for them.
I have Charter as my cable and Internet provider. Starting yesterday, their news server 'news.charter.net' stopped accepting connections with the error
502 Access Denied (Connection Limit Reached)
(newsfe17.iad) (Tornado v1.2.7.560-2)
I called Charter. They say that they provide newsgroup service but don't support it. They also insisted the problem was on my end and that I should call the company who writes my newsreader and then call "Mac". (Did they mean I should call Apple because of a problem with their news server?)
Is anyone else having a similar problem with the Charter news server?
Paul

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