Hi,
Back when I was a regular poster, I was subscribed to RFC through a
news service that showed up on my Outlook Express as news.cis.dfn.de.
In the interim time my computer went down (to hell for further
instructions) the news service went from free to minimal payment. I
lost the information on how to re-subscribe to this service.

My question is this, do any of you have this information? Do any of
you use a newsserver that is of good quality and of little cost? My
ISP that I have my internet service through doesn't access RFC or I
would go back to them.

Help.....Googling everytime I want to see what's up is a pain in the
patootie (shut up Sheldon). I want to get back in the swing of things,
but this is ridiculous.

Thanks,
Ginny

Ginny Tadrzynski wrote:

Hi,
Back when I was a regular poster, I was subscribed to RFC through a
news service that showed up on my Outlook Express as news.cis.dfn.de.
In the interim time my computer went down (to hell for further
instructions) the news service went from free to minimal payment. I
lost the information on how to re-subscribe to this service.

My question is this, do any of you have this information? Do any of
you use a newsserver that is of good quality and of little cost? My
ISP that I have my internet service through doesn't access RFC or I
would go back to them.

For text groups (can't help with binaries):

The German server you used is he http://news.individual.net/
I used it when it was free, but have no experience of the for-cost option.

I now use http://www.teranews.com/
It can be painfully slow at times, but I've found few missing posts.
There's a free option that is limited to 50MB/day downloaded (including
headers).

--Charlene

--
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin, US author (1924-1987)


email perronnellec at earthlink . net
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On 20 Apr 2006 09:43:53 -0700, "Ginny Tadrzynski"
wrote:

Hi,
Back when I was a regular poster, I was subscribed to RFC through a
news service that showed up on my Outlook Express as news.cis.dfn.de.
In the interim time my computer went down (to hell for further
instructions) the news service went from free to minimal payment. I
lost the information on how to re-subscribe to this service.

My question is this, do any of you have this information? Do any of
you use a newsserver that is of good quality and of little cost? My
ISP that I have my internet service through doesn't access RFC or I
would go back to them.

Help.....Googling everytime I want to see what's up is a pain in the
patootie (shut up Sheldon). I want to get back in the swing of things,
but this is ridiculous.

Thanks,
Ginny

It is news.individual.net and the cost is 10EU/year. I just renewed
and was about $13/year US.

You can always ask your ISP to add RFC. Some of them are very good
about adding.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974

Why not just use this

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking?lnk=li

and bookmark it?

On 20 Apr 2006 09:43:53 -0700, "Ginny Tadrzynski"
wrote:

Hi,
Back when I was a regular poster, I was subscribed to RFC through a
news service that showed up on my Outlook Express as news.cis.dfn.de.
In the interim time my computer went down (to hell for further
instructions) the news service went from free to minimal payment. I
lost the information on how to re-subscribe to this service.

I'm not sure, but it might be individual.net, because at some point,
people seemed to have stopped pointing to the above server, and to
individual.net, and that's what I have. It's 10 euros a year (was
about $13 last year, but about twice that this year).

serene

"Ginny Tadrzynski" wrote

Back when I was a regular poster, I was subscribed to RFC through a
news service that showed up on my Outlook Express as news.cis.dfn.de.
In the interim time my computer went down (to hell for further
instructions) the news service went from free to minimal payment. I
lost the information on how to re-subscribe to this service.

My question is this, do any of you have this information? Do any of
you use a newsserver that is of good quality and of little cost? My
ISP that I have my internet service through doesn't access RFC or I
would go back to them.

Help.....Googling everytime I want to see what's up is a pain in the
patootie (shut up Sheldon). I want to get back in the swing of
things,
but this is ridiculous.

Thanks,
Ginny

Hi, Ginny - welcome back! It has been quite a while.

I use news.individual.net also, Ginny, and it's pretty good. As another
poster said, 10 EU or about $12.50 U.S. A variety of other servers are
being used by others; I'm sure you will hear from them.

Dora

On 20 Apr 2006 11:24:50 -0700, "Ace Berserker"
wrote:

Why not just use this

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking?lnk=li

and bookmark it?

Oh, ick. Reading news through google is a last resort.

serene

In article ,
Serene wrote:

individual.net, and that's what I have. It's 10 euros a year (was
about $13 last year, but about twice that this year).

serene

Say what? Here's what hit my card last week: $ 12.46. (That's for a
year.)

--
-Barb
http://jamlady.eboard.com Updated 4-17-2006 with Easter stuffs.
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."

In article .com,
"Ginny Tadrzynski" wrote:

Hi,
Back when I was a regular poster, I was subscribed to RFC through a
news service that showed up on my Outlook Express as news.cis.dfn.de.
In the interim time my computer went down (to hell for further
instructions) the news service went from free to minimal payment. I
lost the information on how to re-subscribe to this service.

My question is this, do any of you have this information? Do any of
you use a newsserver that is of good quality and of little cost? My
ISP that I have my internet service through doesn't access RFC or I
would go back to them.

Help.....Googling everytime I want to see what's up is a pain in the
patootie (shut up Sheldon). I want to get back in the swing of things,
but this is ridiculous.

Thanks,
Ginny

Try news.individual.net and follow the instructions for payment.. I
find it well worth $12 a year (~my most recent charge for a year).
Nothing changed AFAICS except that they can no longer do it for free.
Some stuff (usually the OP) gets lost sometimes (I'll see replies to the
OP but not the OP) but I'm okay with it.

The 10Euro charge comes through Clickandbuy.com.
--
-Barb
http://jamlady.eboard.com Updated 4-17-2006 with Easter stuffs.
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

Try news.individual.net and follow the instructions for payment.. I
find it well worth $12 a year (~my most recent charge for a year).
Nothing changed AFAICS except that they can no longer do it for free.
Some stuff (usually the OP) gets lost sometimes (I'll see replies to the
OP but not the OP) but I'm okay with it.

That stuff doesn't really get lost. It is invariably bona-fide
cancellable spam which actually gets cancelled by despammers or filtered
out by the newsserver. The followups you see are those of the morons
who use inferior newsservers that don't honour cancels and who insist on
replying to every rubbish on the newsgroup, being just as bad as the
spammers.

Bubba

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:51:13 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:

In article ,
Serene wrote:

individual.net, and that's what I have. It's 10 euros a year (was
about $13 last year, but about twice that this year).

serene

Say what? Here's what hit my card last week: $ 12.46. (That's for a
year.)

The euro must've been in a whole different place when mine went
through a month or two ago. I'll go double-check, but I think it was
around $24.

Gosh, you're right. They double-charged me. I bought a membership for
a friend last year, and I bet they renewed it automatically. Shows me
I should read my invoices more carefully. Thanks!

serene

Oh, ick. Reading news through google is a last resort.

Icky POO! It sure is free.

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:51:13 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:

In article ,
Serene wrote:

individual.net, and that's what I have. It's 10 euros a year (was
about $13 last year, but about twice that this year).

serene

Say what? Here's what hit my card last week: $ 12.46. (That's for a
year.)

So that's what that was for! I'm on the phone with the fraud
department for my bank so they don't continue their investigation
into the charge. Damn! Thanks for this info!

Carol
--

Some people are like Slinkies... they don't really have a purpose but
they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

Stolen from "traid" on the IRC

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:51:13 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:

In article ,
Serene wrote:

individual.net, and that's what I have. It's 10 euros a year (was
about $13 last year, but about twice that this year).

serene

Say what? Here's what hit my card last week: $ 12.46. (That's for a
year.)

I just checked the email message I received and the amount or 4/8/06
is $12.46. Worth every penny.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

Try news.individual.net and follow the instructions for payment.. I
find it well worth $12 a year (~my most recent charge for a year).


You don't find Earthlink's servers acceptable?

People complain on the EL Usenet group all the time about the East or West
servers being down but I've never had a problem. For some reason some
threads don't propagate to EL but I can always catch those on Google...

--
Best
Greg