On 3/22/2018 4:36 PM, woodchucker wrote:
> Just thought I would say good bye to many of you that I have conversed
> with over the years. First on the rec, then on the binaries for quite a
> few years, then back to the rec.
>
> I have been paying to keep my old email, and newsgroup service. They are
> now discontinuing the newsgroups on Apr 1st. And I have been using this
> less and less. There seems to be less worth lately, and I just can't
> justify picking up a newsgroup only for the little use I have.
>
> Thanks for putting up with my Phillips bulb rants, or whenever I got
> ripped off.
>
> There has been over the years some really good info, some comradere,
> some really good arguments..
>
> I'm on lumberjocks username woodchuckernj ... I don't do much on
> there , but I do check in to see what people are building.
>
> I have enjoyed our time together.
> I'll be around until the 31st. Then I'm gone.
I'm using
http://usenet-news.net. It's fee based, but not by the month,
you buy non-expiring blocks of downloading. $5.00 will get you 10
gigabytes. (5gb for $3, 50gb for $12, 100gb for $15, 200gb for $22) If
you're not downloading binary files, 10gb could last you for years.