On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:22:20 -0500, Doc NP-f31
<dudewiththeREMOVEhair@hushmail.com> wrote:
>On 13 Jan 2009 13:46:56 GMT, rich <me@where.no> wrote:
>
>> Astraweb has just cut their throat with me. I'm tossing
>>my credit cards, they say that's all they take, so bye.
>>Who's a good replace? Must have binary and reasonable.
>>reply to twilightboy@hushmail.com
>> Thanks, Rich
>
>
>Hi Rich,
>
>This may be a problem for others as well, so I will post this info for
>all to see.
>
>From the FORTFAQ:
>
>Here is some basic information on Usenet News Service Providers
>
>The most recommended newsgroups service providers are listed
>below with a brief description. There are others. They have
>various price ranges.
>
>www.teranews.com
>
>For a one time service fee of US$3.95, you can download up to
>50MB/day, and do unlimited uploads, if they are done before the
>daily download limit is reached. Posting to some newsgroups is
>restricted. They have a less than average completion rate (are
>the posts all present and accounted for?), and poor propagation
>(do the posts make it to all of Usenet?), and don't list the
>contents of some newsgroups of interest.
>
>www.newscene.com
>
>Middle price range. Superior completion but retention (how long
>posts are available on the servers) averages two to three weeks.
>Good security.
>
>www.easynews.com
>
>Good prices. Very good completion. Retention improving, depending
>on price schedule. Has censorship issues, doesn't carry some
>groups of interest (you will not find The Fort on Easynews). Due
>to recent changes, security behavior is unknown.
>
>www.news.astraweb.com
>
>For just one fee of US$10, you can download up to 25GB with no
>time restriction, and do unlimited uploads. Good completion and
>retention, and has all the newsgroups. They have positioned this
>option specifically as a backup server, and for those with dial-up
>connections. It's also very easy, unlike most other providers, to
>successfully, and anonymously, request them to include a new
>newsgroup. This is the only provider that I've ever been successful
>in getting a new group to show up in. They restrict the posting of
>large file sizes. I do NOT recommend posting anything illegal
>through them. They will act on the lightest of complaints and
>contact LEA.
>
>www.Usenetmonster.com
>
>VERY good price for their basic account. Good retention and
>completion.
>
>www.bubbanews.com
>
>Free 50MB download a day, but requires credit card to sign up.
>NOT for private things. They do not seem to have anything on
>their web site to indicate anything about privacy or security
>and they don't list the contents of some newsgroups of interest.
>
>News Service Providers to be avoided
>
>These have any combination of:
>(1) poor security
>(2) poor propagation
>(3) poor completion
>(4) posting restrictions
>(5) missing newsgroups
>(6) zealous cooperation with the Law
>(7) bad payment options
>
>Athenanews 1, 2
>Uncensored-news 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
>Giganews 1, 4, 6
>Newsfeeds 1, 2, 3, 5
>Usenetmonster 5 (many) But extremely inexpensive.
>Newshosting 2, 3, 4, 7 (for posting)
>
>How the posting process works:
>
>Some service providers lease server space from other, bigger,
>service providers, and in different ways, but most of them
>have their own servers with which they receive the posts made
>by their subscribers. So, when you post a message, your post
>first goes to the receiving server, where proprietary information
>is added to the post?s header, such as the provider?s name and
>the propagation path entry. It then gets routed to other servers
>(local), and to other providers (propagated), using a complicated
>time schedule. It can happen that a post can be on a different
>provider's server, before it is seen on the server of the company
>it is posted to, because of different update schedules. Your post
>is, in turn, propagated to other providers, and so on, until it
>reaches the server where others see it. Each server it passes
>through, will add more information to your post's path entry.
>Different providers use different software to do this, and they
>are not all compatible. There can be all kinds of problems in
>this process, and there are many opportunities for file corruption.
>
>***********
>I hope this was helpful. You will find it in your inbox as well.
>
>Have A Beautiful Day,
>
>Doc
>NP-f31
Dearest Doc,
Thank you much for this valuable information regarding NSPs. I must
amend your perhaps overly flattering assessment of Astraweb by also
noting in the strongest terms that the posting of any photo--ANY
PHOTOGRAPH-- of a person under the age of majority is against
Astraweb's TOS--whether an image of antiquity or modernity, clothed,
partially clothed, or naked. Indeed, posting a photograph of an Inuit
child dressed in mukluks and seal parka from head to toe is considered
by Astraweb as being a violation of their policies, punishable by
termination of the offender's account.
You may confirm this fact by accessing their website, and the
inconvenience that their stated TOS and their subsequent policy
statements regarding the posting of images of minors are contradictory
and confusing ... an issue that I brought up to them, no doubt without
resolution.
Therefore, potential subscribers may wish to take these observations
under advisement.
Sincerely,
HMS Victor Victorian NP-g18
God Save the Queen!
God Preserve the Prince of Wales!
Rule Britannia!
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