Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Dan Lund wrote:
>
>   
>> If you mean nntp server, their nntp server for the west is nntp.west.cox.net.
>> If techs don't know that, they should be fired... that's right on any
>> page showing smtp, nntp, and pop3 servers.
>>     
>
> That's not what I mean. What I was asking about is the entity that 
> provides their news feed (Giganews etc. etc.). From what I have read, they 
> don't run their own news servers. If they do they're even more clueless 
> than I thought as they told me they don't provide support for news 
> problems.
>
>   
No DNS entry exists for nntp.west.cox.net. I wouldn't be surprised if 
Cox dropped their NNTP service. Many other ISPs are doing that.

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