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From: Mike Rosenberg on 28 Apr 2010 16:14
Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:

> Give <http://news.individual.net/> a go - only �10 per year and very
> little spam. Text only groups though, but really BitTorrent is a far
> better way to share files if you're into that.

I've found that eternal-september.org is about an equally good of
blocking spam and the price can't be beat.

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From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 28 Apr 2010 16:30
Mike Rosenberg <mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com> wrote:

> Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
>
> > Give <http://news.individual.net/> a go - only �10 per year and very
> > little spam. Text only groups though, but really BitTorrent is a far
> > better way to share files if you're into that.
>
> I've found that eternal-september.org is about an equally good of
> blocking spam and the price can't be beat.

*shrug* I don't mind paying a pittance for a decent service. After all -
_somebody's_ paying for every 'free' non-ad supported product and
service we make use of. Even open source devs appreciate a donation.
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From: dorayme on 28 Apr 2010 16:49
In article
<2dellis-612CAE.08274028042010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
Richard Ellis <2dellis(a)notthispart.cox.net> wrote:

> Everybody is right.

Why is this untruth in your byline?

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From: dorayme on 28 Apr 2010 16:51
In article <280420100855588202%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article
> <2dellis-612CAE.08274028042010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
> Richard Ellis <2dellis(a)notthispart.cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Are there other sources, methods to connect to Usenet? Expensive? Free?
>
> there are a *lot* of options, from free text only services to paid if
> you want binary groups or just something more reliable than free (which
> is generally pretty good but it's certainly not perfect). there's even
> a usenet newsgroup for it, alt.free.newsservers.
>

For plain text, is there "more reliable" than the one I use? How
reliable are the paid services, in what respect?

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From: D Finnigan on 28 Apr 2010 17:16
dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <2dellis-612CAE.08274028042010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
> Richard Ellis <2dellis(a)notthispart.cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Everybody is right.
>
> Why is this untruth in your byline?
>

Because no one is wrong. ;-)

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