On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:39:14 GMT,
(TheAlligator) wrote:

> The Cook > wrote:
>
> >NIN will no longer be free after April 1, 2005.
> >http://news.individual.net/
> OK, I went for it, against my better judgement. Received 3
> confirmation emails from Clickgate and one from Individual.net,
> assuring me that all is well. I spent several years searching out
> free usenet servers. It was OK, except that every so often, the one I
> was using would disappear and the search would be on again, screwing
> up my newsreader with thousands of old posts. NIN isn't the best
> place in the world, doesn't carry all the newsgroups. But my
> experience over the last couple of years is that it's fast, reliable
> (even when run as a volunteer venture) and it carries the few groups I
> WANT. So, today, the euro translated to $13.55 US for a year of
> service. Not exactly something to lose sleep over. And if you click
> "United States" to start, you end up (although you won't realize it at
> the time) dealing with Clickgate International, a firm in New York
> City, New York. YMMV.


Not being an individual.net subscriber, I don't know what
you don't like about Clikgate. But if you're alarmed, you
may want to try this:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

sf