On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:09:50 -0500, Elliot Richmond
<xmrichmond@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:03:59 -0500, Sqwertz <swertz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
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>>Roadrunner, OTOH, was a big money-saver for them. They shut off all
>>of Usenet and don't have to pay to outsource it.
>
>When Roadrunner dropped Usenet, I went looking for an alternative. On
>a different group, several people recommended Astraweb and Terranews
>as Usenet providers. After not much research, I went with Astraweb.
>They have a pay as you go alternative and I figured that for 10 bucks,
>I could probably download text files for a century or so. If you do
>look at a lot of binary files, another choice might be better.
>
>Hope this helps.
Dumping TW and switching to Grande definitely helped me. Grande outsources
to Giganews.
Basically, I now have an unlimited Giganews account for free. Cable
service
is comparable. A bit cheaper, overall. But switching to Grande isn't an
option for everyone.
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