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Posted by Shane on December 16, 2005, 1:11 pm
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>>> Ghostown wrote:
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>>> i think i know the one you're talking about... it changed it's name a
>>> couple years ago to individual.net and now is a fee-based service...
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>> that's right. I used/use news.individual.net since years. The free
>> changed to fee (10 Euro/year NOT month) about 1 year ago. So far IMO the
>> fee is cheap enough for a good newsserver. And news.individual.net was/
>> is one, IMHO. Perhaps Heather decide this way?
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> I also used it for many years till it went to a pay one. It was a devil
> to figure out how to pay for it from Canada.
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> However, my only beef with it is that you cannot munge your From Address.
> If they changed that rule, I would use them in a heartbeat!!
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> But so far, I am still up and running with Rogers, but for how long I do
> not know.
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> I only need text.....not binaries. So I may just go for this one.
I found it wouldn't carry to the same thread depth as the MS servers, so
while I usually used it news.individual.net, I kept msnews.microsoft.com
ready for reading the occassional *really* long thread. Most of the time it
just wasn't an issue though.
Shane
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