On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:23:13 -0400, blake murphy wrote:

> i like usenet-news, though i recall you've had complaints about them.
> three bucks for 5 GB. i signed up on 7/13/09 and i'm still working on the
> balance (4.3395 GB).

OK, so I guess I have to use Internet Explorer to log into their
account page.

I signed up for 30GB for $10(?)around the same time and between me
an two other people just reading alt.binaries.food, I'm at 29.14GB

30 years worth of Usenet for $.33/year. When you price it that way,
it sure seems insignificant that the ISP's dropped Usenet. 99% of
the cost of running Usenet servers is spent supporting the large
binary users who download 5-100GB a month. And there really is no
incentive for ISP's to deal with that for less than 1% of it's
users.

-sw