Posted by Neredbojias on 08/04/07 12:39

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:07:03
GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:

>>> 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.

So? Then I guess they tried to stiff me. This is no fantasy; the
charge was on my bank account until I had it removed. (-Only about $3,
but it's the principle... I also couldn't get thru to their hotline to
inquire.)

Did you use a cc?

>>> 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. :)

I've looked at your current effort a few times, and it seems pretty damn
good to me. Probably the best thing to remember when html-page-making
is that there are bound to be roadblocks because the standards aren't
fully "set" yet and the browsers render markup differently, anyway. In
some ways I think it's all a bunch of crap little better than what was
around in the early nineties. The _move_ towards standardization is
good, but the reality of the current implimentations...? I dunno. I
think they could have done better.

--
Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.

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