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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:55:59 -0500
From: BoyFuzz <boyfuzz@boyfuzz>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.zippo
Subject: Re: PING! Me@home - For You
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:56:03 -0400
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>www.news.astraweb.com
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>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.
Thanks for the info Doc!
Do you (or anyone else) have any other info about astraweb? Thinking
about switching (or adding) but want a little more info if at all
possible:
1) Other than bad posting security, how's the d/l security?
2) Overall, how would asta rank compared with the others? (the price
looks good, but what about retention, group availablily, security,
speed, customer service, etc.?) (Does anyone actually use astra - or
used it in the past- that could give some additional info here?)
Thanks to you or anyone else who can add a little bit more!
---BoyFuzz
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