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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: I purchased a Giganews account
Date: 2 Nov 2024 01:38:56 GMT
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On Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:29:48 -0400, Joel wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I think Eternal September is a terrific service, of course, they do a
>>> great job, but I really feel like I should make Usenet one of my
>>> monthly bills, again.  It's faster, more complete (some posts in here
>>> are filtered by E-S).  Usenet remains quality over quantity, compared
>>> to Twitter/X.
>>
>>I've used individual.net for years. It's from the Free University of
>>Berlin. Years ago it was free but then they started charging 10 Euros/
>>year. That's within my budget. Besides, it keeps me up to date on the
>>exchange rate. It used to be around 15 USD but the last time it was 11
>>and change. They now use PayPal so no hassles with international
>>transactions.
> 
> 
> Does that have the binary access, of GN, though?

No it is non-binary. So to speak.