Retired <senile@nursinghome.nat> wrote in
news:XnsA02EEBBB1127Abutter@wefb973cbe498:
> nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin) wrote in
> news:4f80f101.1317489269@127.0.0.1:
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>> On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:36:20 -0500, Retired <senile@nursinghome.nat>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Doc NP-f31 wrote in news:lcc0o7t44chsssni8rmgidu1ou00bdvmbn@4ax.com:
>>
>>>> Captains Courageous (1937) featuring the winsome and curly haired
>>>> Freddie Bartholomew has been posted in norp. A very clean copy and
>>>> worth the bandwidth/download time.
>>
>>> Durn. GigaNews won't do binaries in norp.
>>> I did get 191 parts of the 842 parts on my teranews account before
>>> it cut me off for exceeding my daily limit. Actually, the daily
>>> limit is 50 Mb and I actually got about 260.
>>> So now it's either
>>> (a) keep getting what I can every day and hope I get it before it
>>> expires. (b) Pay teranews $14.95 for a one month unlimited account.
>>> (c) Find another free newsserver that will do norp binaries.
>>> (d) Someone be nice and post it here... :-)
>>
>>> --
>>> -- I'm retired. I was tired yesterday. I'm tired again today --
>>
>> Astraweb offers a 25GB download block for US$10 which never expires,
>> has no rate limit, and can be run 24/7 until you use it all up, if
>> you like. If you use it only for massive downloads, it should last
>> for years.
>>
>> (And they also offer 180GB for US$25, or 1TB (!) for US$50 ...)
>
> OK. Thanks for the info. I've been with GigaNews like forever but I
> did sign up with Astraweb 2 or 3 years ago for some reason I can't
> even remember now. Anyway, as I remember, I wasn't even allowed to
> post through them without emailing for permission or something. I
> didn't stay with them long.
> But I'm not too cheap to spend $10, I guess, but other than for this
> particular occasion, I don't really need another newsserver.
>
OK. I did it *your* way. (Astraweb) :-)
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