On Thu, 13 May 2010 19:39:09 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> 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.
>

firefox got in o.k.

> 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

i'm not messing with movies, mostly text.

your pal,
blake