Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed2.dti.ad.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!np0.iij.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!not-for-mail From: Scott Reynolds Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: The free ride is over Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:59:30 +0900 Organization: JENS Internet Service Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <37fkrlF5c7mbtU1@individual.net> <42131BC5.6270DEF@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 190.pool24.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1108612758 17039 165.76.42.190 (17 Feb 2005 03:59:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:59:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25270 Edward Mills wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:08:43 +0900, Scott Reynolds wrote: >>I suppose I am just lucky with my ISP's news server. There's been nary a >>hiccup over the past several years. But then again I do have to use a >>pay server for binaries. > > You do? My IP has a news server that gets about ten million more groups > than I care to take the time to wade through, and they don't care if it's > binary or plain text. Never a problem, and it's included with the basic > price (about 3,000 yen a month). My ISP (Jens Spinnet) carries lots of groups, but none of the posts in the big binary groups are ever complete. It is fine for text groups, though. > However, I've been thinking of changing > because a neighbor works for the local cable company and he can get me > hooked up with a faster connection for the same price, plus all the perks > he can hook me up with for just being wonderful me. The guy practically > insists on buying almost every beer I drink down at the local watering > hole. I refuse, he refuses to accept my refusal, he refuses to accept my > refusal of his refusal, I try to turn the tables on him by ordering two > beers from the bartender, he tells the bartender to put it on his tab... I guess he likes you. If you can get a faster connection for the same price, why not give it a try? Of course, then you probably will have to find another news server, because most of the cable outfits have never heard of Usenet or that other thing this group is on. > Things are a lot different now than when I first subscribed to > compuserve/niftyserve and they thought I would be happy to pay them 500 yen > a minute for a 1200 bps connection! Yup, those were the days. I still have my old 1200 bps in a box gathering dust somewhere, or maybe I threw it away. -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com