I'm still looking for a server in Zambia. Maybe Tanzania is a better
idea since I plan to be there in the not so distant future. It's
likely I'm be in Germany again before that so uni.berlin has got dibs
for now.
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:39:55 -0700, Aratzio <a6ahlyv02@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>On 16 Sep 2004 04:09:13 -0700, thanatos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(bob)
>transparently proposed:
>
>>Well, well, well.
>>
>>Someone sent an email to my ISP complaining about my rude and
>>obnoxious posts. Me?!?!?
>>
>>My wife called and the guy she talked to said they got them all the
>>time, their policy is to send letters to their customers letting them
>>know, and that she shouldn't worry about it.
>>
>>It's probably time to get a couple of posting only accounts. Is
>>supernews any good? I used to use newsguy but it's been a long time.
>>It'd be cool to use a newserver in someplace like Zambia, Micronesia,
>>or Uzbekistan.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>Hey bob,
> SN is great, over a years retention in the text groups. BUT their
>filters can be a pain, especially if you want to post with AUK or AFAB
>in the newsfroups line. There are quite a few newsfroups SN will not
>let you x-post to if AUK or AFAB are also litsed.
>
>If you want free and posting there is individual.net text only server,
>you have to sign up at: www.individual.net
>
>there is www.bubbanews.com, free, 50Mb a day downloads and headers
>count.
>
>there is www.teranews.com, $3.95 sign-up, same 50Mb as bubbanews.
>
>Both bubba and tera are VERY spotty completion wise and unreliable.
>But they are nice to use as throw away accounts.
>
>My personal choice for a posting only account is a "block account"
>with www.shared-secrets.com or www.octanews.com.
>
>Buy a 2 gigs from S-S for like $1.99 and you get posting privileges.
>Lot of text in 2 gigs. Good for segment fills in binary froups too.
>
>Octanews is the commercial arm of www.readfreenews.com. Run by Mike
>Horwath. Have to email to get posting turned on.
>
>If you have questions either will be more than willing to answer them.
>
>robb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(I have an account with him)
>
>Mike Horwath
>mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Robb and Mike both have well defined TOS/AUP and will not terminate an
>account for torlling or flaming unless real abuse is proven to their
>satisfaction.
>
>'Ratz
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