On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:40:27PM -0700, Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas wrote: > John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:05:08AM -0700, SJS wrote: > > > > I refuse to pay more for Usenet on top of what I'm already paying my > > ISP, and every news server that I have access to (either because it's > > free or because it's what one of my ISPs provides) sucks... they are all > > unusably slow, full of garbage groups, poorly maintained (if at all), > > and it is impossible to find anyone who cares about them. News is > > almost always outsourced... the ISP can't help you because they don't > > manage the news server, and the news provider won't help you because you > > aren't their customer... the ISP is. > > > > It's a shame, but I've learned to cope. > > Have you used AIOE before ? http://www.aioe.org/ it seems to be faster > than my paid SuperNews account. You wont get bin news groups but you can > post and read just fine.
Yup. Unusably slow. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
