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Same company/service behind the other block account deal featured a few weeks back here. Don't believe there has been any problems.

@chris12345: i am double checking on this...
here is the skinny:

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thanks for asking... :)

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whats with all the damn legal talk, can i just get some feedback about this provider....?

How is this any different than astraweb's deal?

What is this exactly??????

@nullx42: The difference is 81 cents per month. ;) Honestly though, our price per month for this is lower than all of our competitors when you look at what you get for the price. Access to 2 servers, SSL, 500+ days of retention, posting and a neat little web based newsreader that will let you access discussions right on your iPhone (although it does also work fairly well on Blackberries and some other devices).

Notice we do say 500 days retention, we tend to be more ahem conservative with how we advertise that, versus just about all of our competitors.

Yes, there has been multi-month deals that bring the per month price lower when you divide it out (we even have them now and then) but we have found that once users start paying for more than 3 months at a time, the re-billings become an issue because folks forget all about it, or many just dont feel prepaying for a year or more up front is worth it. That's a personal decision though. A year is a long time in the Usenet world!

hackers of the world unite?!

"What is this exactly??????"

Usenet is a throwback to the old days of the internet before GUIs. It is like a bulletin board system that lets you post messages and read responses on different topics, similar to internet forums.

Messaging is only a small piece of what goes on on usenet. The part everyone is really interested in is the binary filez that are posted. You will find music, movies, software, books, and of course, porn, all pirated and posted there for easy DLing.

Your ISP probably provides access to usenet, but may have only a limited selection of newsgroups, and may have poor binary support (incomplete filez) and poor retention (they dump messages, especially binaries) off their servers after a few days or weeks, and may have slow servers.

This deal is for a premium usenet service provider. They have fast servers (at least one would hope), what appears to be great retention, and allow unlimited DL/UL traffic for about $10 per month.

Yeah, I bought that block deal that was on here a couple of weeks ago. I'm very satisfied. I'm not too sure if this a good deal or not but this provider is great - I've had no problems so far.

Can't I find the same thing on Google Groups?

Aren't they all texted based? What other kind is there?