"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:37fkrlF5c7mbtU1@individual.net...
> As I suspect many of you did, I got an email from the German news server
> that they are going to start charging a fee as of April 1.
>
> Looks like I might have try out the gol server again. Has it gotten any
> better, Brett?
>

I feel like I'm losing a good friend.  However, if you can sneak 40 bucks 
past the missus once every quarter then http://usenetserver.com/ is well 
worth the investment.

I think downloading usenet binaries is still in the area of "can't be caught 
doing something illegal unless the powers that be actually raid the company 
and seize the server logs" - anyway, they also have all the text-only groups 
as well.  I'm resigned these days to paying for free-shit.

--
jonathan