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The ideal for American ISPs would probably to charge per meg, as I paid in Moscow. This would wipe Linux off the map, IMHO, because Linux's popularity is based on easy access to improved versions of the software, which means low-cost downloads.
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Its actually very uncommon these days for it to be included at all with the ISP, honestly. Comcast hasn't had them for a while.
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My comcast has free usenet, up to 2GB a month.
I also use teranews which is OK. But I highly recommend Agent Premium Newsgroups: http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php
For 3 bucks a month, you can d/l 10 GB.
I have been e-communicating for many years, before the Internet, via dialup, ISDN, DSL, and Cable, in California, New Jersey, New York, Russia, Estonia, Spain, and England, and this is the first time I have had a provider that doesn't provide free Usenet newsgroup access.
The way that Time Warner Cable just suddenly discontinued them, with no prior notice to me (unless I watched a certain fairly obscure Internet site, which I didn't), seems uncourteous in the extreme.
I'm looking for another ISP.
Last edited by geneven; 2008-07-03 at 08:10.