cluedweasel said:
I have free and a pay Teranews accounts and I'm using neither at the
moment. All was fine until a month or so ago and then I started
missing articles. Comparing with other servers, it looks like TN is
missing 25-30% or articles.
Get out! Well, that's my second or third bad suggestion in a couple of
days, so I'll STFU for now, I guess. This is basically how it is in the
low-end of the market.
I once tried pricing my product extremely low and it caused me problems
(like keeping the lights turned on!), so this is the invariable dilemma with
"free" or very-bargain-priced things in general.
But such (seemingly) basic rules were often (seemingly) violated on the
internet, where such truly-useful stuff as e-mail is still as free as can
be. They're even competing...on free!
Another reason my suggestions have lately been, ahh, suboptimal, is that I
do use two pay servers myself on a daily basis, so I'm not up-to-date
anymore on how the bargain services are doing, such as this surprising
glitch you now mention at Teranews. As you note, they have been a real
bargain + reliable for a long time.
Oh well, just FTR, I've switched from Giganews, which was simply great, to
Agent Premium, which is much cheaper and, so far, almost as great. Then, I
also use Easynews because of their incomparable web tools. Total of $25
monthly for an unparalleled package with unlimited downloading (including
binaries, 'natch.)
Maybe this time I'll help *somebody!*
