From: Richard Ellis on
In article <dorayme-772F86.06494929042010(a)news.albasani.net>,
dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> 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?

Exactly!

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Everybody is right.
-Rochefoucault
From: John McWilliams on
dorayme wrote:
> 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?

Dunno 'bout 'more', but my provider is superb. eternal-september.org.

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John McWilliams
From: John McWilliams on
Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> Mike Rosenberg <mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com> wrote:
>
>> Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> Give <http://news.individual.net/> a go - only ยค10 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.

So, send me $20 bucks and use e-s.org.....

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john mcwilliams
From: dorayme on
In article <dog_cow-1272489404(a)macgui.com>,
dog_cow(a)macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:

> 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. ;-)

Why are you replying with yet another untruth?

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dorayme
From: dorayme on
In article
<2dellis-87F574.14485828042010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
Richard Ellis <2dellis(a)notthispart.cox.net> wrote:

> In article <dorayme-772F86.06494929042010(a)news.albasani.net>,
> dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> 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?
>
> Exactly!

Right! <g>

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dorayme