From: Fred Moore on
In article <slrnhqnqp5.304m.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>,
Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <jollyroger-0E60CC.04021125032010(a)news.individual.net>
> Jolly <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> > In article <slrnhqlq1k.guk.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>,
> > Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
> >> awaiting its arrival on newshosting.com
>
> > I read recently somewhere here that newshosting.com is very expensive
> > compared with individual.net. Individual is one of the best news servers
> > around. You may want to give them a look some time and save yourself
> > some dough.
>
> I use newshosting for binaries. It is very reasonable for that ($15/m
> unlimited)
>
> If I were only using USENET for posting, I'd use endless-september,
> probably. Mostly because I love the name.

Um, Lewis, it's eternal-september, just so no one gets confused. And
I'll give it a very strong thumbs up. Good service; almost never down;
price is right.
From: Aratzio on
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:22:21 +0000 (UTC), in the land of alt.config,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk(a)chinet.com> got double secret probation for
writing:

>Fred Hall <fkhall(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk(a)chinet.com> wrote:
>>>Fred Hall <fkhall(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:03:01 -0500, Steve Bonine <spb(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>Thanks, Michelle.
>
>>>>comp.mobile.ipad is also now on Altopia. Congrats, Michelle
>
>>>You too, fred?
>
>><winks at Adam and his bowtie>
>
>I blame 'Ratz.
>
>At some point the group will be created on Google Groups and will then get
>the traffic it deserves, ghod help it.

Oh, I think I can fill in there.

<insert muahaha laugh here>

Or at least once Robb gets around to opening it up for trolling, err,
posting.
From: Martin X. Moleski, SJ on
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:59:51 -0600, nmassello(a)gmail.com (Neill Massello) wrote in <1jfx300.w6ksmu1adwpagN%nmassello(a)gmail.com>:

>And on Giganews as of Thursday afternoon (25 March).

Supernews has it on their list now.

Still waiting for Astraweb to get it.

Marty
--
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Unless otherwise indicated, I speak for myself, not for the Board.
From: Fred Moore on
In article <Xns9D474444FC2Dnoonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13>,
Larry <noone(a)home.com> wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons(a)mac.com> wrote in news:lloydparsons-
> 960D3A.10572525032010(a)news.eternal-september.org:
>
> > I don't have a need for the
> > binary groups
>
> ....because you've never really explored them. There are more movies,
> music, documentaries, ebooks, magazines, games, and everything else
> you've ever seen run on a computer....on usenet in a day....than on the
> rest of the web in a year.

Ah, I love the smell of freshly transplanted viruses in the morning!

> Load up a nasty ol' Win XP box with a BIG hard drive attached to it and
> download Grabit from www.shemes.com for free. Grabit will mark, que,
> download, decode, assemble and store binaries all by itself. You'll
> need WinRAR to compile the larger movies and DivX and Xvid to play them
> in beautiful HD or really nice wide-screen videos. MP3, audiobooks,
> ebooks/mags, pdf, etc., decode ready-to-play without further assembly
> straight off Grabit.

Oh, DAMN, I have a Mac and I feel SOOOO deprived.
From: D Finnigan on
Steve Bonine wrote:
> Thanks, Michelle.
>

Thanks as well. Always nice to be around at the start of a new group.

It's being archived from Day 1 at Mac GUI City:
http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=113

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