Re: Idiot spam attack on sci.lang

On 2008-02-01, António Marques wrote:

4. Third-party news providers usually cater to binary users also, which
means they don't have (please someone inform me if they do) pricings for
people who just want to use text (in case it wasn't clear before, text
uses almost no resources at all when compared to binaries). Their
pricings are usually per-month or amount of gigabytes, whichever comes
first, which is completely inadequate for me (both in price and number
of times I'd have to perform payments). But teranews does have this
special offering of (limited but enough for me) service for a one-off
fee, and that's what I got.

5. No, I'm not happy with them, but as per (4) I have not yet found an
alternative.

I think news.individual.net is pretty good. It's not free but it's
not expensive (EUR10/year).


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