Janet Wilder wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
> > Janet Wilder wrote:
>
> >> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
> >>> For the record, my primary ishttp://news.individual.net(10 euros (about
> >>> $14US) a *year*), and I presume you are referring to that. *It's
> >>> excellent. *I've been testing - and it seems solid - the free server shown
> >>> in my sig. I guess I'll change that line to reflect that it seems okay..
>
> >>> Two other good freebies arehttp://news.motzarella.organd
> >>>http://news.datemas.de-- but the only GG-killer I know of is the one in
> >>> my sig. *(For datemas, ignore the "temporarily suspended" note.)
>
> >> I use astraweb. If you don't do binaries, it's $10 for life.
>
> > How's it for spam filtering?
>
> I set my own filters in my newsreader. I never heard of a news server
> that filters it for you????


There's a small outfit here in Chicago that is now filtering out
*everthing* posted from Google...I'm not surprised, many are tired of
Google, a grwoing trend.

I notice today that when I post from Google they are asking for
"verification", e.g. "please type the characters you see in the
picture below..." before posting. Maybe it's a "response" of sorts to
the spam problem?

I just now signed up for the server that notbob mentioned a whiles
back, it's something like "usenet-news.net". For eight bux I bought a
block of 20 gigs worth of space, should last a whiles.

In other Usenet nooze, the aioe.org free server is apparently dead...


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Greg