On 21 Jan 2024, MRO said the following...
MR> eternal september does weird blocking stuff and throttling. it will also
MR> not let you post under more than one username. it will also shut off
MR> your feed temporarily for various reasons.

omg you mean like it says directly on their web page under Terms of use, FAQ, etc?? i can't imagine why they'd do that to me!

saying they "suck" because of this makes you sound like a moron. and you know what? they're incredibly generous with their time/money from the looks of it.. so why don't you ask them if they can improve a generic account for BBS use somehow? include some info about how Sync works. sounds a bit cooler to me than complaining so much.

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Re: Re: Usenet news feeds
By: fusion to MRO on Sun Jan 21 2024 08:06 pm

> On 21 Jan 2024, MRO said the following...
>
> MR> eternal september does weird blocking stuff and throttling. it will
> MR> also not let you post under more than one username. it will also shut
> MR> off
> MR> your feed temporarily for various reasons.
>
> omg you mean like it says directly on their web page under Terms of use,
> FAQ, etc?? i can't imagine why they'd do that to me!

When i used it years ago i didn't find any information on the weird stuff that was going on and I didn't pull tons of data. I used them before these changes and they were fine. They became 'eternalseptember' and then they started
sucking ass.

> saying they "suck" because of this makes you sound like a moron. and you
> know what?

If you say so, but i used their service and it sucks. it's better to do what i mentioned before and buy a small block with another provider that will last forever.

People that tout how great eternalseptember is are pretty ignorant and
usually scrubs.

> of it.. so why don't you ask them if they can improve a generic account for
> BBS use somehow? include some info about how Sync works. sounds a bit cooler
> to me than complaining so much.

Because I don't have time in my life to to do stupid shit like that. I made a smart decision and used a better provider. That's what people who aren't
morons do. I believe I did open up a ticket about one of their weird error msgs but they never answered back.

Sorry to have offended you! do you have a horse in this race?

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Re: Re: Usenet news feeds
By: MRO to fusion on Mon Jan 22 2024 06:46 am

> > MR> eternal september does weird blocking stuff and throttling. it will
> > MR> also not let you post under more than one username. it will also
> > MR> shut off
> > MR> your feed temporarily for various reasons.
>
> > omg you mean like it says directly on their web page under Terms of use,
> > FAQ, etc?? i can't imagine why they'd do that to me!

okay i read their faq today. it appears i was being blocked but not really meeting the criteria for nymshifting. i also had other issues with them as a provider.

anyways, maybe they have improved, so i think people should make their own decision. it's free so it wont be that hard.

i do recommend something like https://www.astraweb.com/

you can pay 10 bucks and get a 25gig block which will last forever.
it's lasted me like 3 years.

it says here for my acct:
Bytes Left
24.72 GB
Bytes Purchased
30.81 GB
Account Status
Running

Setup instructions
Hostnames
news.astraweb.com
us.astraweb.com
eu.astraweb.com
IPv6 Hostnames
news6.astraweb.com
us6.astraweb.com
eu6.astraweb.com
SSL Ports
563 or 443
NNTP Ports
119, 23, 1818 or 8080
Maximum Connections
50 connections

i do recommend it because i've had zero problems .... AND you can use them for binaries.
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