Free Usenet account.

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Hi,

Many of you will read the subject and think: "Another lame spam attempt".
It isn't. This is the free Usenet service I have been using for years. I
have been moving between ISP's, and even continents, and kept my Usenet
account with these folks. It always works and have all the news groups
available that I need (I'm not into binaries and such).

Strictly spoken this is not "freeware", but closely related, so go to:

http://individual.net/index.html
 
Hi,

Many of you will read the subject and think: "Another lame spam attempt".
It isn't. This is the free Usenet service I have been using for years. I
have been moving between ISP's, and even continents, and kept my Usenet
account with these folks. It always works and have all the news groups
available that I need (I'm not into binaries and such).

Strictly spoken this is not "freeware", but closely related, so go to:

http://individual.net/index.html
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I'd second that. Being non-binary there are no morons posting viruses and
they seem to be good at filtering spam posts as well.

Regards
Gordon
 
I'd second that. Being non-binary there are no morons posting viruses and
they seem to be good at filtering spam posts as well.

Regards
Gordon
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Answer cubed. Best I have ever found.
 
Answer cubed. Best I have ever found.
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Yup, I was driven there by my ISP (btinternet.com) having a newsserver that
would drive you nutty! Even little me!!!

I stood it for a long time because I hate registering, but it's excellent
(so far..)

mike
 
mike said:
You BTDT?!
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Yep.

I went to BTi when they suddenly became the best unmetered, UK dial-up
deal. The competition then was between Clara, FS and BTi. Lineone had
been good but dumped on us; Redhotant never looked like a goer...I
jumped ship from BTi for A*L when they suddenly transferred me to the
'heavy user' modem banks and defined 'heavy use' as an abusive thing
that included me. A*L remains the best unmetered UK dial-up by far...

Shame about A*L's software; I've just installed it on the new doorstop,
er, laptop, and TotalUninstall fell over on the job :-)

..support was surreal fun :-) happy time when they gave us 24/7 over
Christmas a few years back; all disconnections were down to our
firmware, the newsserver never had a problem, manually needing to add
the 'naughty groups' to our newsreaders, Derek Potter getting booted off
for posting to .announce, Dominic bloody Hyde...
I thought you were American!
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Come on now. Do I *look* American?
 
jo said:
LOL

Happy memories of .support and .whinge :-)
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Query: What's with the "Expire" list? e.g., 35 days, 174 days, etc. most
35 days.
Name Description Language [Encoding] Expire
24hoursupport.* independent volunteers help with computer problems English
35 days
3dfx.* Support for Products of 3dfx English 35 days
abg.* Augsburg, Germany German 35 days
adobe.* Support for Products of Adobe English 35 days
alabama.* Alabama, USA English 35 days
alt.* Alternate Hierarchy
Groups are added by user request only.
(no alt.binaries.*, alt.mag.*, alt.sex, alt.sex.*) English 35 days
ar.* Argentina
(without ar.binarios.*) Spanish 35 days
at.* Austria German 174 days
 
Helen said:
Query: What's with the "Expire" list? e.g., 35 days, 174 days,
etc. most 35 days.
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That's how long messages are retained on the sever. On an alt.* group
(35 days), for example, you won't find a 37 day old message.
 
That's how long messages are retained on the sever. On an alt.* group
(35 days), for example, you won't find a 37 day old message.
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Do they spiral up to the dome and explode?

mike
 
Many of you will read the subject and think: "Another lame spam
attempt". It isn't. This is the free Usenet service I have been
using for years. I have been moving between ISP's, and even
continents, and kept my Usenet account with these folks. It
always works and have all the news groups available that I need
(I'm not into binaries and such).

Strictly spoken this is not "freeware", but closely related, so
go to:

http://individual.net/index.html
Click to expand...


Very interesting but as others will rightly point out this is not
freeware.

They would probably direct you to and ask
you not to post off-topic again in this group.
 
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