Re: Doesn't suprise me in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r14837965 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:07:56 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:07:56 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14837965 joetaxpayer :
said by joshpo See Profile :

Anyone who is not a major noob uses a pay news service that has better completion and retention than the ISP services. I bet more and more ISPs do away with usenet soon. Not that customers should be happy or anything it just doesn't shock me
Yea, I've used usenet since before the net went WWW, when my modem was still 300baud. Speed and retention mean little to me, I guess 20 years later, I'm a noob.....
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said by printscreen See Profile :

Perhaps these people should outsource their NNTP server.
Comcast did the same (to giganews) and alot of comcast suscribers were not happy. 1 Gig per month, and downloading headers took away from that total. Anyone that could was dropping comcast and switching to verizon. Verizon has the best free servers around, and hopefully they wont drop it like Rogers did. But we all know what they are used for and IMO any provider is within their right to terminate that service.
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I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree, don't you wanna grow up to be just like me!!!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14835285 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:45:03 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14834917 printscreen : Interesting. I used to pay for Usenet access until I found by snooping around that the server I was paying for and the one used by my ISP were one and the same, or at least, belonged to the same company. That day I cancelled my subscription and continued using the server provided by my ISP which has excellent retention and completion. My ISP outsources its NNTP server and happened to be the same provider I was using.

Perhaps these people should outsource their NNTP server.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14834917 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:45:58 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14834133 Sarah : The groups I use on Comcast are as close to real time as my emails are. Good enough for me.

I like using my current newsreader and it would be a PITA to switch to some other service when I pay Comcast a ton of money every month.
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said by Sarah See Profile :

Yeah, they bought out dejanews a while back. It's OK, but the posts are not in real-time, they are greatly delayed.
There are a boatload of free providers out there. Also no post in USENET is realtime unless you are on the same server:p.
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I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree, don't you wanna grow up to be just like me!!!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833996 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:20:54 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833957 zod5000 : yah i'd be a little choked... i use my isp's server for posting messages and what not, i just use a premium server for binaries. So I guess i could get around it, but for those few people who only use it for posting and reading messages in text groups, that could suck.

you would think maybe isp's would just cut out the binaries, it costs too much for them to maintain binaries in a decent fashion anyways, should be rather inexpensive to keep the text groups.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833957 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:13:08 EDT Re: deja vue all over again http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833896 Primis1 : Bingo.

Everyone can stop pretending otherwise.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833896 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:04:25 EDT Re: deja vue all over again http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833719 joshpo : There are plenty of free services for pure text and many people use those groups, but lets not kid ourselves what most people use usenet for, and why Rogers probably pulled the plug.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833719 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:35:18 EDT deja vue all over again http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833458 anon : Google already has 'free' text newsgroup service, and its searchable too.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833458 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:13:46 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833589 Sarah : Yeah, they bought out dejanews a while back. It's OK, but the posts are not in real-time, they are greatly delayed. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833589 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:10:17 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833569 inciter : Have you tried out Google? they offer free access the newsgroups you are talking about. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833569 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:07:25 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833380 Sarah : Speaking of "noobs"... are you even aware that there is more to usenet than the binary groups and downloading files?

If you're using the old-fashioned text-based newsgroups (like me) there's no need for long retention and there are no issues with completion. I would be pissed off if I had to pay for access.
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The devil makes work for idle hands, but Stanford makes work for idle CPUs!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833380 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:38:47 EDT Re: Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833331 wjr110 : Perhaps some people don't feel the need to pay extra for usenet service because it isn't important to them to have better retention and speeds. Calling them 'noob's is very mature of you.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833331 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:31:46 EDT Doesn't suprise me http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833309 joshpo : I'm actually suprised more ISPs haven't done this due to legal issues and low usage. Anyone who is not a major noob uses a pay news service that has better completion and retention than the ISP services. I bet more and more ISPs do away with usenet soon. Not that customers should be happy or anything it just doesn't shock me]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14833309 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:27:50 EDT