Miles wrote:
> * Paul Furman wrote, On 6/29/2009 10:09:
>> SMS wrote:
>>> AKT wrote:
>>>> My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>>>>
>>>>> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
>>>>> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>>>> Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
>>> Depending on where you are, you might look for a provider that isn't
>>> discontinuing Usenet, rather than looking for free Usenet service.
>>>
>>> But check out "https://news.individual.net/".
>>
>> I've been fine with the free motzarella.org service for about a week.
>> Funny though, when I tried reading this thread last night, I had
>> reached the daily limit:
>> http://www.eternal-september.org/
>> "The number of connections per day and per user has been limited to
>> 1200."
>> Which is fine really... if I reach that limit I should go out & play
>> in the sun for a while .
>>
>
> Perhaps you are downloading the msgs in their entirety, not simply the
> headers?
Just headers and I actually read a fairly small percentage. There are 4
photo groups I frequent (11 others I rarely visit but header counts
load) and I use a lot of filters to mark as read as well as marking
cross-posted threads ignored so a whole lot of headers... I kind of
doubt I actually viewed 1,200 messages yesterday though I guess it's
possible... I flip through them pretty quickly with hot keys in thunderbird.
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