Has anyone tried to request alt.binaries.amp??
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<please_read@my_sig.com> wrote:
>Just wondering if it got turned down or not and what were the reasons...
I received your request via email and responded accordingly.
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The CEO@Acme Corp
"Internet America Technical Support" <sup...@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:8DCF50A08FABE12C.88EA9580...@lp.airnews.net...
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:01:58 -0400, "The CEO@Acme Corp"
> <please_read@my_sig.com> wrote:
>
> >Just wondering if it got turned down or not and what were the reasons...
>
> I received your request via email and responded accordingly.
Well that was a very dissappionting response. I can understand the reason
for being a stealth porn group but other servers, including @home carry this
group. You often use responses like these for higher traffic sites. This
is my first attempt at asking for a group to be added. Your concerns on
adding this group might have been valid, except your company spews them out
often for many other requests. I'm already looking into another usenet
provider. I don't mind to pay more to get a service or request I want.
The CEO@Acme Corp
consistently among the top 100 binary groups available among tens of
thousands. The statistics vary daily; it is ranked 68th today (Number
of Messages Posted) at:
http://www.newsadmin.com/top100msgs.htm
The rmgroup cancel message that Airnews reacted to was justifiably
ignored by a great number of premium servers; it is a bit of
vindictiveness on the part of alt.config who are not prone to admit
not being able to see the forest because of the trees.
Despite alt.config's myopia, the group was created quite legitimately
following presentations there. I could elect to send booster control
messages which would re-alert server admins to the presence of ab.amp
- but I am tiring of swaying the last few mickey mouse nttp servers.
The priority now is to keep the NG as flame- and spam-free as we had
intended it to be.
Let Airnews continue to take your money and deny you your preferences.
For downloading and posting, I have no problems with either
usenetserver or newscene.
Wilph
Brad Felmey
<wRyEoM...@aRiErMmOaViEl.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:40:41 -0500, Jester © <kegp...@myhouse.org> wrote:
>
>>Check this out www.usenet-access.com it Rock's!!!! I've been using them for
>>a couple of months now and have requested four groups and they all were
>>added with in three days of my request... When my airnews subscription runs
>>out in November I will not be renewing it, there are way to many other services
>>that are willing to do what ever it takes to keep their customers happy...
>
>While cluttering USENET with crap that most of us don't want.
That's not a valid argument, Bill, unless you're taking on the mantle of
speaking for "most of us". I'm absolutely sure that I read groups you don't
want, and vice-versa. Your statement smacks of "if it's not important to me,
it's not important".
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Brad Felmey
Malcolm Weir
to appear as if it was written:
>To give you an Idea..
>
>Usenet-Access $6.00 a month
>Access to 16 different individual servers
Why, exactly, would this be a benefit?
Seriously, dealing with two individual servers is a royal pain in the
wossname, so 16 just seems like a nightmare!
>30 gig per month per server 16x30 = 480 Gb.
>NO anti-suck or bandwidth restrictions
>Over 100,000 Groups
Yippee! A whole 100,000 groups!!!!
Do any of them actually contain anything useful?
>Willing to add ANY newsgroup ( takes 3 days max )
Cool. Have them add "comp.arch.wivvle.sneep", please. And, while they're
at it, "rec.thump.a.loony"...
[ Both of those were, I think, the subject of a valid newgroup message,
many, many years ago. Although I may have mis-spelled "sneep". ]
>Very friendly technical support staff
>No off the wall policies regarding adding groups.
See above...
>Now Airnews.
>
>$9.95 a month for Airnews Classic.
>Access to 1 individual server.
>No download cap
>Uses Anti-Suck and Bandwidth restrictions
Oh, please try to get a clue. One of those went away when the other
arrived.
>Only 36,449 News Groups
>Technical Staff needs improvement
>Very restrictive policy regarding adding groups.
And... RETENTION!
Your bogus "comparison" has completely managed to ignore the single most
important issue concerning news servers: how long do they keep articles.
Just ask an @Home user why this might be important...
>Jester..
Malc.