Posted by Joe (GKF) on 04/29/07 01:24

In article <20070427112339.265d187d.andrew@nospam.invalid>,
andrew@nospam.invalid says...
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:13:17 GMT
> Joe (GKF) <joedinmore@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I have to change ISPs and it's increasingly difficult to find one
> > in my price range that provides Usenet. Can any Aussies recommend
> > either a cheap ISP who does Usenet, or a good cheap Usenet provider?
>
> I have been using AAPT for a while now and it provides decent Usenet
> service, although it uses news.connect.com.au. Prices are only ok if
> you bundle everything together: phone, mobile, broadband will charge
> $40 per month for 512/128 12 gig download and give you a nice
> modem/router. Is this your price range?

No broadband available here and I don't have a mobile phone. (They don't
work too good here on the farm)
>
>
> > BTW - we got 28mm of rain yesterday. Bloody bewdy! It hasn't broken
> > the drought by any means, but it certainly was nice.
>
> Some reasonably heavy rain here in the Blue Mountains as well.
> Perhaps this is the beginning of the end for the long dry spell,
> despite what the doomsayers seem to want :-)
>
There's a long way to go yet. We (ie., Australia) will need above
average rainfall for *years* to get back to anything like what we
considered to be "normal".


> Andrew
>


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