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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 08/04/07 09:07
Neredbojias wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sat, 04 Aug 2007
> 05:53:09 GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:
>
>>>>> Apparently my gnuish new newsserver was down for quite a while so
>>>>> if'n ya cussed me out and I didn' cuss ya back, that's why.
>>>>
>>>> Which one's that?
>>>
>>> UsenetMonster. $2.95 per month: 10 gigs. Cheap, but if I spent
>>> much more,
>>
>> Ah. I thought since it went down you might be posting from a backup.
>
> Nah. Just waited till it came back up. Rather like intimacy in the
> boudoir revisited.
>
>>> I might just as well get a discount dial-up account (-like I had
>>> before for $8.95/mo.)
>
>> I don't need bunnies, so I use news.individual.net for $14/year as my
>> primary.
>
> I tried that when I decided to go hi-speed but had trouble with the
> payment methods. The rules are different for Americans and Europeans,
> - worse for the former. They try to dun your cc (for cc usage, I
> guess) _as well as_ the normal charge, and I would have none of it.
I'm the former. I had no issues with them the two times I've paid for
the service.
> I also have a few freebies, and use a couple-three of those
>> most every day, as well (as well as the in-house servers like at
>> mozilla.org and spamcop.net and grc.com).
>>
>> Not counting the unused and unconfigured OE, I also have 7 news
>> clients.
>>
>> I'm kind of a Usenet junkie. :)
>
> You must be subscribed to a lot of different groups 'cause I don't see
> your tail around here that often (-lessen you just jaw much less than
> you read, sort of an anti-dorayme-type-paradigm.)
Probably 30, but some of them are low-traffic groups. I only heavily
participate in...I guess three that run two or three hundred posts or
more a day. Most are mid-sized. I read a lot more than I post here and
in alt.www.webmaster; I'm not as versed in the issues with these two
groups so it's more learning for me and less helping. I did just pick
up a domain to take my Usenet Improvement Project to, so when I get
around to designing that (it'll be completely new) I'll probably be
standing in the help queue here more than I have been. :)
--
Blinky RLU 297263
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Except in Thunderbird, which can't filter that well.
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