On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:37:33 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> On 11/15/2016 11:15 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:52:28 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/15/2016 2:09 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I paid $2.50 for my blocknews.net account 5 years ago and I still have
> >>> probably 4 more years to go for that $2.50 (which includes downloading
> >>> all the alt.food.binaries posts). They have all the groups, including
> >>> binaries.
> >>
> >> I'll have to look into that. In 6 years I've use 7.4 GB. That would be
> >> $4.40 on blocknews
> >
> > Looking back, I did buy the $4.50 plan back on 4/25/10 (6.5 years ago)
> > and I've used a whopping 3.03468 GB. So at this rate that one time
> > payment of $4.50 is going to last me about 22 years.
> >
> > I should probably write the remaining balance into my will.
> >
> > -sw
> >
>
> I signed up last night and cancelled Giganews. Splurged for the $4.50
> package. Heckofadeal Thanks for the tip.
> http://blocknews.net/

I bought a 25GB block for $10 at Astraweb back in 2008 and have used
2.60 GB. I think I need to put the account in my will and bequeath it
to someone at the rate I'm using it.


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