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Author: Nathan England
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Subject: Re: usenet

Well as little as I use usenet I don't want to pay for it, but I haven't found
what I'm looking for so I am stopping. I appreciate the help though!

nathan

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 13:00, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:57, Nathan England wrote:
> > > Easynews is OK... I prefer NewsGuy. 10 bucks a month for all the porn^w
> > > warez^w flamewars^w content I could possibly want.
> > >
> > > ~Ben
> >
> > That's great, except as a servant of my Lord Jesus Christ, I am looking
> > for a decent news group, not a porn site.
> > But thank you very much.
>
> Hrm... Ben's comment was clearly done with tongue in cheek. It's a take on
> the common belief that the only people that need a separate Usenet feed
> (like Easynews or Giganews or whatever) are trying to download bandwidth
> intensive binaries from the alt.binaries groups... which typically means
> porn or warez. This was back when most ISPs provided a limited Usenet feed
> which covered all of the major groups but almost never covered the binary
> groups. Now that more and more are cutting that service entirely, it's
> possible that the stigma of using an external Usenet feed will go away. Or
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