Steve Barker wrote:

$3 for 12GB a month.

I'm not sure why anyone reading usenet text groups would want to use a
paid service vs any of the many free servers that currently exist (such
as the one I've been using for the past 4 years - aioe.org).

When it comes to the binary groups (of which my experience with
multi-part binary completion was poor back when my own ISP still
operated a usenet server) I have to admit to no experience with binary
downloading from usenet, but that's probably because all of my download
needs are satisfied for free by using torrents or by patronizing several
of the web-based file-sharing directory and listing services
(avaxhome.ws being one example) where the download files are hosted on
file-locker sites like rapidshare, hotfile, fileserve, etc.

And when it comes to downloading from file-locker sites, I find that (a)
my download speed is generally very good - 100 to 550 kbyte/sec, and (b)
I can perform serial download sessions from those sites without having a
paid account by simply re-freshing (changing) my IP address.

So all of that is my way of saying that I don't understand the need to
pay for a usenet service. I download several gb of copyrighted material
per day, all without paying for any sort of account (other than my ISP).

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:32:56 -0500, Home Guy wrote:

Steve Barker wrote:

$3 for 12GB a month.

I'm not sure why anyone reading usenet text groups would want to use a
paid service vs any of the many free servers that currently exist (such
as the one I've been using for the past 4 years - aioe.org).

Because a lot of people block aioe completely.

snipped personal preferences and admission of theft

" wrote:

I'm not sure why anyone reading usenet text groups would want
to use a paid service vs any of the many free servers that
currently exist (such as the one I've been using for the
past 4 years - aioe.org).

Because a lot of people block aioe completely.

Which is paradoxical, since aioe goes overboard to ban all local-users
from posting to groups from which the aioe administrator has received
pretty much any form of abuse complaint.

At any given time, there are dozens of groups which aioe does not permit
local users from posting to, and which local users discover this "ban"
because their posting software given them an error when they attempt the
post. And aioe does not make it known which groups are banned, or when
the ban was put in place. It does remove the ban at the request of
users, but only if a suitable ban-period has elapsed, but the length of
this period is not known to users.

And I'm not aware of any organized or widespread habbit of kill-filing
AIOE posters, at least not like there is supposed to be for google-group
posters.

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:36:21 -0500, Home Guy wrote:

" wrote:

I'm not sure why anyone reading usenet text groups would want
to use a paid service vs any of the many free servers that
currently exist (such as the one I've been using for the
past 4 years - aioe.org).

Because a lot of people block aioe completely.

Which is paradoxical, since aioe goes overboard to ban all local-users
from posting to groups from which the aioe administrator has received
pretty much any form of abuse complaint.

Yet it is the only other server (other than Google) that I know of that has a
contingent of people who block its posters entirely.

At any given time, there are dozens of groups which aioe does not permit
local users from posting to, and which local users discover this "ban"
because their posting software given them an error when they attempt the
post. And aioe does not make it known which groups are banned, or when
the ban was put in place. It does remove the ban at the request of
users, but only if a suitable ban-period has elapsed, but the length of
this period is not known to users.

And I'm not aware of any organized or widespread habbit of kill-filing
AIOE posters, at least not like there is supposed to be for google-group
posters.

Organized? Usenet? Are you kidding?

" wrote:

Because a lot of people block aioe completely.

Which is paradoxical, since aioe goes overboard to ban all local-
users from posting to groups from which the aioe administrator
has received pretty much any form of abuse complaint.

Yet it is the only other server (other than Google) that I know of
that has a contingent of people who block its posters entirely.

Where would I find this contingent of people?

Where do they make themselves known, such that I could obtain
independant confirmation that they exist, and even get an idea as to
their numbers. ?

And I'm not aware of any organized or widespread habbit of kill-
filing AIOE posters,

Organized? Usenet? Are you kidding?

A "contingent" of people doing the same thing? Usenet? Are you
kidding?

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:53:49 -0500, Home Guy wrote:

" wrote:

Because a lot of people block aioe completely.

Which is paradoxical, since aioe goes overboard to ban all local-
users from posting to groups from which the aioe administrator
has received pretty much any form of abuse complaint.

Yet it is the only other server (other than Google) that I know of
that has a contingent of people who block its posters entirely.

Where would I find this contingent of people?

The electronics groups. There are several regulars who have AIOE blocked
(google, too, but they often will white-list some contributors).

Where do they make themselves known, such that I could obtain
independant confirmation that they exist, and even get an idea as to
their numbers. ?

That's going to be a trick. Why should they answer anything from someone they
don't know, who uses a server they detest?

And I'm not aware of any organized or widespread habbit of kill-
filing AIOE posters,

Organized? Usenet? Are you kidding?

A "contingent" of people doing the same thing? Usenet? Are you
kidding?

You said *organized*, which for the Usenet is a ludicrous concept.