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Blueyonder now carry uk.telecom.voip

I just feel sorry for NTL users

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Michael Valentine
"Scottish and proud of it"

On Wed, 11 May 2005 12:21:41 GMT, "MikeV"
<i-hate-> wrote:

>Blueyonder now carry uk.telecom.voip
>
>I just feel sorry for NTL users

I guess many of us pay our annual 10 Euro to news.individual.net (who
added the group almost as soon as it was available).



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Mark

On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:35:56 +0100, Mark <>
wrote:

>On Wed, 11 May 2005 12:21:41 GMT, "MikeV"
><i-hate-> wrote:
>
>>Blueyonder now carry uk.telecom.voip
>>
>>I just feel sorry for NTL users
>
>I guess many of us pay our annual 10 Euro to news.individual.net (who
>added the group almost as soon as it was available).
>
>
But I am still narked at being forced to buy a separate news service I
do think that All isp's should provide all groups after all BB
connections are not cheap ISP's must be making a fortune .

<> wrote:
[...]
> But I am still narked at being forced to buy a separate news service
> I do think that All isp's should provide all groups after all BB
> connections are not cheap ISP's must be making a fortune .

Are you being deliberately dense, or were you born that way?

Have you any idea of the cost of providing a news service, or do you
seriously think that lots of fast disk and bandwidth costs nothing?

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On 11 May 2005 14:42:28 GMT, (Peter
Corlett) wrote:
>Have you any idea of the cost of providing a news service, or do you
>seriously think that lots of fast disk and bandwidth costs nothing?
In that case why do they insist on carrying groups that 99.9% of
people in the UK would never think of subscribing to ???? Blueyonder
could chop at least half of the groups it carries and no one would
bother.

In article <428219d4$0$38040$>, Peter Corlett
<> writes
><> wrote:
>[...]
>> But I am still narked at being forced to buy a separate news service
>> I do think that All isp's should provide all groups after all BB
>> connections are not cheap ISP's must be making a fortune .
>
>Are you being deliberately dense, or were you born that way?
>
>Have you any idea of the cost of providing a news service, or do you
>seriously think that lots of fast disk and bandwidth costs nothing?

A text only (no binaries) news service however, costs, in the grand
scheme of things the ISP pays for, next to nothing.
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David Mahon

David Mahon <> wrote:
> Peter Corlett <> writes
[...]
>> Have you any idea of the cost of providing a news service, or do
>> you seriously think that lots of fast disk and bandwidth costs
>> nothing?
> A text only (no binaries) news service however, costs, in the grand
> scheme of things the ISP pays for, next to nothing.

Oh, I agree, and I've run a full text-only feed before with minimal
effort. However, the great unwashed seem to mean "fast warez downloads
without the hazards of P2P" when they ask for news.

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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire,
and drop into your grave.
- Quentin Crisp

bout time too ....... although im a tad confused ..... how come its on the
text server and NOT on the binary server? i asked last week about this being
added and was told it would appear on the main binary server, then it could
be added to the text server, yet it just seems to have appeared on the text
server

does this mean that they CAN really add new groups as they see fit ??


"MikeV" <i-hate-> wrote in message
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> Blueyonder now carry uk.telecom.voip
>
> I just feel sorry for NTL users
>
> --
> --------------------
> Michael Valentine
> "Scottish and proud of it"
>
>

"Peter Corlett" <> wrote in message
news:42822a0a$0$38045$.. .
> David Mahon <> wrote:
>> Peter Corlett <> writes
> [...]
>>> Have you any idea of the cost of providing a news service, or do
>>> you seriously think that lots of fast disk and bandwidth costs
>>> nothing?
>> A text only (no binaries) news service however, costs, in the grand
>> scheme of things the ISP pays for, next to nothing.
>
> Oh, I agree, and I've run a full text-only feed before with minimal
> effort. However, the great unwashed seem to mean "fast warez downloads
> without the hazards of P2P" when they ask for news.

Isn't news.individual.net a text only service..?

Ivor