Re: What is an Obituary?

Ian Goddard wrote:
> Dave Hinz wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:08:07 +0000, Ian Goddard 
>> <goddai01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Robert Melson wrote:
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>> Here's a suggestion on how to fix it, at least as seen at your end.
>> 1. Subscribe to a newsfeed which filters out the obvious spam before
you
>> even see it.  news.individual.net costs 20 bucks a year or so, and
>> blocks a lot of the crap I see people complain about but don't see in
my
>> newsreader.
> 
> *Not* acceptable.  Why should *I* have to pay for other peoples' 
> misbehaviour.  This is what it comes down to.

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The Berlin server used to be an excellent freebie

now they charge a nominal fee

but being run by the computer department of the Free (ie note state) 
University of Berlin means that they have  a commitment ot excellence 
not seen in the average ISP  (no binaries but about 28000 news groups)

Hugh W




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