first time
bob
Someone sent an email to my ISP complaining about my rude and
obnoxious posts. Me?!?!?
My wife called and the guy she talked to said they got them all the
time, their policy is to send letters to their customers letting them
know, and that she shouldn't worry about it.
It's probably time to get a couple of posting only accounts. Is
supernews any good? I used to use newsguy but it's been a long time.
It'd be cool to use a newserver in someplace like Zambia, Micronesia,
or Uzbekistan.
Any ideas?
Meat-->Plow
(bob),wrote:
Just keep using Google. They don't respond to real Usenet
abusers so they're not likely to hassle you.
Aratzio
Hey bob,
SN is great, over a years retention in the text groups. BUT their
filters can be a pain, especially if you want to post with AUK or AFAB
in the newsfroups line. There are quite a few newsfroups SN will not
let you x-post to if AUK or AFAB are also litsed.
If you want free and posting there is individual.net text only server,
you have to sign up at: www.individual.net
there is www.bubbanews.com, free, 50Mb a day downloads and headers
count.
there is www.teranews.com, $3.95 sign-up, same 50Mb as bubbanews.
Both bubba and tera are VERY spotty completion wise and unreliable.
But they are nice to use as throw away accounts.
My personal choice for a posting only account is a "block account"
with www.shared-secrets.com or www.octanews.com.
Buy a 2 gigs from S-S for like $1.99 and you get posting privileges.
Lot of text in 2 gigs. Good for segment fills in binary froups too.
Octanews is the commercial arm of www.readfreenews.com. Run by Mike
Horwath. Have to email to get posting turned on.
If you have questions either will be more than willing to answer them.
ro...@shared-secrets.com (I have an account with him)
Mike Horwath
mi...@octanews.com
Robb and Mike both have well defined TOS/AUP and will not terminate an
account for torlling or flaming unless real abuse is proven to their
satisfaction.
'Ratz
David
[...]
> both have well defined TOS/AUP and will not terminate an
> account for torlling or flaming unless real abuse is proven
> to their satisfaction.
Interesting. I thought any kind of "abuse" is whatever a white
middle-class mother with who mentions "the Lord" says it is.
But then I live in Kentucky.
D.
--
"I don't think that I can take it, cuz it took so long to bake it."
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Peter J Ross
> On 16 Sep 2004 04:09:13 -0700, than...@coldmail.nu
> (bob),wrote:
>
>> Well, well, well.
>>
>> Someone sent an email to my ISP complaining about my rude and
>> obnoxious posts. Me?!?!?
"That nasty man said something I didn't like! Make him stop, Mommy!"
>> My wife called and the guy she talked to said they got them all the
>> time, their policy is to send letters to their customers letting them
>> know, and that she shouldn't worry about it.
>>
>> It's probably time to get a couple of posting only accounts. Is
>> supernews any good? I used to use newsguy but it's been a long time.
>> It'd be cool to use a newserver in someplace like Zambia, Micronesia,
>> or Uzbekistan.
I use one in Taiwan (freenews.netfront.net), but it's read-only.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Just keep using Google. They don't respond to real Usenet
> abusers so they're not likely to hassle you.
But they do include your IP number in the post, and besides, who wants
to use an http gateway instead of a newsreader?
I'd give news.individual.net a try before paying good money for a news
feed. They no longer display your IP number, and I looked at their AUP
recently and was reminded of Altopia's in the way they announce how
they'll ignore stupid complaints. They have a few restrictions on
crossposting, though not as many as Supernews, and they filter
everything crossposted to alt.binaries.* groups, but the worst that
can happen is that you might lose an account that cost nothing or
decide that you don't like it.
(I notice they don't have alt.thanatos, but they might add it on
request.)
--
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bob
They are soooo freaking slow though. Of course, lately I haven't been
posting all that much so it might not matter.
bob
wrote:
Thanks for the information. I may email Robb. Of course, since my
accountant (she became my wife after I hired her to deal with things
financial) deals with all my bills and she's the one who brought up
the complaint letter to me ....
Who am I kidding?
She'd just hand me a debit card if I were to ask her to deal with it..
Aratzio
>Thanks for the information. I may email Robb. Of course, since my
>accountant (she became my wife after I hired her to deal with things
>financial) deals with all my bills and she's the one who brought up
>the complaint letter to me ....
>
>Who am I kidding?
>
>She'd just hand me a debit card if I were to ask her to deal with it..
This is a poast through S-S, just so you can peak at the headers for
any nasty surprises. I do not think there are any.
'Ratz
Peter J Ross
Jimmy Snibbler
news:cidds7.3...@nntp.petitmorte.net...
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:06:58 -0700, Aratzio wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:38:50 GMT, bob <than...@coldmail.nu> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the information. I may email Robb. Of course, since my
> >> accountant (she became my wife after I hired her to deal with things
> >> financial) deals with all my bills and she's the one who brought up
> >> the complaint letter to me ....
> >>
> >> Who am I kidding?
> >>
> >> She'd just hand me a debit card if I were to ask her to deal with it..
> >
> > This is a poast through S-S, just so you can peak at the headers for
> > any nasty surprises. I do not think there are any.
>
> And here's one poasted with news.individual.net.
10Q, berry-berry much. ;-)
bob
>On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:57:28 -0400, Meat-->Plow wrote:
>
>> On 16 Sep 2004 04:09:13 -0700, than...@coldmail.nu
>> (bob),wrote:
>>
>>> Well, well, well.
>>>
>>> Someone sent an email to my ISP complaining about my rude and
>>> obnoxious posts. Me?!?!?
>
>"That nasty man said something I didn't like! Make him stop, Mommy!"
I'm a baaaaad boy.
>>> My wife called and the guy she talked to said they got them all the
>>> time, their policy is to send letters to their customers letting them
>>> know, and that she shouldn't worry about it.
>>>
>>> It's probably time to get a couple of posting only accounts. Is
>>> supernews any good? I used to use newsguy but it's been a long time.
>>> It'd be cool to use a newserver in someplace like Zambia, Micronesia,
>>> or Uzbekistan.
>
>I use one in Taiwan (freenews.netfront.net), but it's read-only.
>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Just keep using Google. They don't respond to real Usenet
>> abusers so they're not likely to hassle you.
>
>But they do include your IP number in the post, and besides, who wants
>to use an http gateway instead of a newsreader?
I use google at work because I can't load a newsreader on my computer.
>I'd give news.individual.net a try before paying good money for a news
>feed. They no longer display your IP number, and I looked at their AUP
>recently and was reminded of Altopia's in the way they announce how
>they'll ignore stupid complaints. They have a few restrictions on
>crossposting, though not as many as Supernews, and they filter
>everything crossposted to alt.binaries.* groups, but the worst that
>can happen is that you might lose an account that cost nothing or
>decide that you don't like it.
I like the cost nothing part.
>(I notice they don't have alt.thanatos, but they might add it on
>request.)
Verizon didn't carry it either but they added it after I asked.
bob
idea since I plan to be there in the not so distant future. It's
likely I'm be in Germany again before that so uni.berlin has got dibs
for now.
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:39:55 -0700, Aratzio <a6ah...@sneakemail.com>
wrote:
>On 16 Sep 2004 04:09:13 -0700, than...@coldmail.nu (bob)