Accounting Talk Accounting Talk    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups Goto page Previous  1, 2          Accounting Talk Forum Index -> Quicken View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries Guest Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:54 am    Post subject: Re: Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups XS11E wrote: Quote: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com> wrote: Most of the truly free servers don't have great retention, and they miss a lot of posts. I use Motzarella and have no problems with retention or missed posts? In the grand scheme of things, Motzarella goes down more often than the commercial servers, and if it doesn't lose all that many posts, sometimes they take longer to arrive. Individual.net rarely goes down and it never misses a post. Neither one carries binaries. At the moment, I have acounts with DataBasix, Altopia, Datemas, Motzarella, NIN and X-Privat, so that's my current personal basis for comparison in this discussion. -- Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor John Pollard Guest Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:02 am    Post subject: Re: Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries wrote: Thanks for your observations about this problem. I have reported similar problems with my ISP (Mediacom) for several years When I first encountered the problem with them (they only carry posts for about 24 hours) - several years ags and mentioned it to them ... they said that every ISP was doing (or going to do) the same thing. Unfortunately, I had no way to verify - by experience - what they claimed: I can not get high-speed internet from any source but my cable company (or a satellite company, which I do not think will be an improvement): my local phone company monopoly does not offer DSL in my area. I do not object to paying my way; it may be possible that there is no economic way to provide "free" newsgroup service. I suspect that we may need to give the issue greater thought. [By the way: to save me from having to research Bertrand Russell's writings; can you tell me if the "man" referred to in the quote in your signature refers to man, the homo-sapien, or to someone of the male gender?] -- John Pollard First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com Please reply to newsgroup Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries Guest Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:31 am    Post subject: Re: Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups John Pollard wrote: Quote: Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries wrote: Thanks for your observations about this problem. I have reported similar problems with my ISP (Mediacom) for several years When I first encountered the problem with them (they only carry posts for about 24 hours) - several years ags and mentioned it to them ... they said that every ISP was doing (or going to do) the same thing. Unfortunately, I had no way to verify - by experience - what they claimed: I can not get high-speed internet from any source but my cable company (or a satellite company, which I do not think will be an improvement): my local phone company monopoly does not offer DSL in my area. There are more than a thousand usenet providers. Some of them are quite good, some suck. Quote: I do not object to paying my way; it may be possible that there is no economic way to provide "free" newsgroup service. I suspect that we may need to give the issue greater thought. [By the way: to save me from having to research Bertrand Russell's writings; can you tell me if the "man" referred to in the quote in your signature refers to man, the homo-sapien, or to someone of the male gender?] Mankind, male, female and indeterminate. -- Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor RsH Guest Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:39 am    Post subject: Re: Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups AstraWeb... I have a 90 gigabyte indefininte download account for a reasonable one time price of $25, and after 3 years still have about 85 gigs left to go. They definitely have the binaries. RsH ---------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:58:49 GMT, Dustin Cook <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote: Quote: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com> wrote in news:g33695$h5$1 @blackhelicopter.databasix.com: Han wrote: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com> wrote in news:g33077$fs9$2 @blackhelicopter.databasix.com: David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com You purchase a seperate usenet account from a 3rdparty. Tell me about Dustin. You'll soon see me on a new NSP :-( Are you going to use a free one or a paid one, Dave? The best non-commercial server I know is news.individual.net, and it costs less than USD$15/year. Most of the truly free servers don't have great retention, and they miss a lot of posts. Does this server carry binaries? No. I don't know of any good free or low-cost binary news servers. Shit! Rhonda, if you should happen to come across a reasonably priced server offering access to the binaries groups, please let me know. Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Laura Guest Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9ABEA2D9E8B8HHI2948AJD832@69.28.186.121... Quote: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com> wrote in news:g33695$h5$1 @blackhelicopter.databasix.com: Han wrote: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com> wrote in news:g33077$fs9$2 @blackhelicopter.databasix.com: David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com You purchase a seperate usenet account from a 3rdparty. Tell me about Dustin. You'll soon see me on a new NSP :-( Are you going to use a free one or a paid one, Dave? The best non-commercial server I know is news.individual.net, and it costs less than USD$15/year. Most of the truly free servers don't have great retention, and they miss a lot of posts. Does this server carry binaries? No. I don't know of any good free or low-cost binary news servers. Shit! Rhonda, if you should happen to come across a reasonably priced server offering access to the binaries groups, please let me know. Are you doing a lot of binary download or just occasionally? Teranews has access to the binary groups as well as several pricing plans based on download bandwidth. Their (almost) free account costs $3.95 as a one time setup fee and it does have binaries. Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Route101 Guest Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:35 am    Post subject: Re: Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9ABEA2FFEA565HHI2948AJD832@69.28.186.121... Quote: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in news:%H85k.43005$Xu2.20104@trnddc04: From: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com | David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com You purchase a seperate usenet account from a 3rdparty. Tell me about Dustin. You'll soon see me on a new NSP | | Are you going to use a free one or a paid one, Dave? The best | non-commercial server I know is news.individual.net, and it costs | less than USD$15/year. Most of the truly free servers don't have | great retention, and they miss a lot of posts. | My requirements are thus... I don't mind paying a modest yearly fee. Here's what I am looking for... 1. Binaries. I won't be downloading that much per month. Definitely less than 200MB/month 2. Allows obfuscating email address as I do here. 3. Doesn't too aggressively block spam. I need to see the BS to find malware and malicious activity, etc. 4. Does not append a NSP spam signature to every post. Yes, I have the same requirements/needs. So I'll be monitoring and hoping someone knows of a decent one. -- Regards, Dustin Cook - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk BugHunter v2.2e AntiMalware Removal Utility For Windows users, I highly recommend: http://www.malwarebytes.org - MalwareBytes AntiMalware a handy site for news server comparisons http://www.newsgroupservers.net/ Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         Accounting Talk Forum Index -> Quicken All times are GMT Goto page Previous  1, 2 Page 2 of 2   Jump to: Select a forum Accounting Talk----------------Accounting TalkPeachtreeQuickbooksQuicken  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum 68 Attacks blocked Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group