usenet providers

And many, many more spammers. I block astraweb, except for a few white-listed folk.

...Jim Thompson

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Anybody care to educate me about usenet servers and downloading.

I'm looking at Asteaweb's Pay-by Download.

25 GB for $10 or 180GB for $25

My pattern is; I use Outlook express and I look at about 13 groups. I have two computers, so in the morning I'll look at many of those 13, later in the day I'll us my laptop to download again to see if anything new has come up. Then again in the evening I'll look again. Daily. The Pay-by Download Faq says " Only article bodies are counted towards your downloads! Headers etc. are not counted towards your downloads." I don't have a clue how to find the bandwidth I use, but I suspect it's not much. Any guidance appreciated, well maybe except telling me not to use Outlook express :-) Thanks, Mike

I use the Forte $3 a month service. And an old version of Agent. Seems to work fine.

John

Unless you download binaries, 25GB will last you a lifetime. Or, at least, it will last you so long that by the time it runs out, prices will be down to $10 for 25TB (and $10 will buy a pack of chewing gum; but the US will

*still* have $1 notes ;) ).

Most text messages are 1KB-2KB. A really long message deep in a thread where no-one bothered to snip anything might be 20KB. So 25GB is a few million text messages.

Racist!

Since it costs 10x what I pay for news.individual I'll give it a miss

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I wouldn't know, having only met personally Win, Spehro, and Steve (Goldstein). But it would not surprise me at all that there are black white-listed folk AND white black-listed folk. So there !-)

...Jim Thompson

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Late at night, by candle light, John Larkin penned this immortal opus:

Same here, have been using it for a couple of years now, and no complaints. Xananews and Grabit for binnies and a _very_ old Agent for text.

- YD.

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Remove HAT if replying by mail.

Almost as funny as my statement. Good comeback!

anything

it's=20

Outlook=20

least,

down

You could probably add a.b.s.e in without changing the metric much.

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