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Did any more of you get an email about the News.Individual.NET starting to
charge for their service: effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service............. snip Important notes: Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop working. Users who use the server News.CIS.DFN.DE as part of the DFNNetNews project are not effected by the changes described above. Nothing will change for these users, they do not need to do anything. ??????????? Jenny |
JennyC wrote:
Did any more of you get an email about the News.Individual.NET starting to charge for their service: effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service............. snip Important notes: Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop working. Users who use the server News.CIS.DFN.DE as part of the DFNNetNews project are not effected by the changes described above. Nothing will change for these users, they do not need to do anything. ??????????? Jenny Yes Jenny I did, very sad I have found it excellent, I wonder if there is another (free) one as good. My Internet provider has one but there seems a lot of controversy surrounding it. Anyone have any suggestions as to an alternative? |
"VivienB" wrote in message ... On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:27:33 +0000, Broadback wrote: JennyC wrote: Did any more of you get an email about the News.Individual.NET starting to charge for their service: Yes Jenny I did, very sad I have found it excellent, I wonder if there is another (free) one as good. My Internet provider has one but there seems a lot of controversy surrounding it. Anyone have any suggestions as to an alternative? I got it too. I have been surprised a free service has been possible so long, considering the level of junk-filtering needed now! At 10 Euros a *year*, the fee is not unreasonable. Regards, VivienB I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny |
I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny Very wise. Beware the scam on ebay accounts. You will be targeted and informed that illegal transactions have taken place on your account and would you please confirm your details and pass words etc. I suspected that it was a scam and went and looked following their instructions!!! Very very authentic!! I did nothing and my account is still open and trading some 2 months after the event. AND I still get the scams :-(( Mike |
"Mike" wrote in message ... I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny Very wise. Beware the scam on ebay accounts. You will be targeted and informed that illegal transactions have taken place on your account and would you please confirm your details and pass words etc. I suspected that it was a scam and went and looked following their instructions!!! Very very authentic!! I did nothing and my account is still open and trading some 2 months after the event. AND I still get the scams :-(( Mike Yes, but it not ebay..... It seems genuine enough ...... Jenny |
JennyC wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message ... I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny Very wise. Beware the scam on ebay accounts. [...good stuff snipped...] Yes, but it not ebay..... It seems genuine enough ...... Jenny I'm still suspicious. I received the email, but Yahoo! put it in my bulk folder: surely the real people would have been able to circumvent that? I regularly receive bulk emails that I actually want from various sources -- BBC, Amazon, etc -- and they go to my inbox without being intercepted. And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to write "April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather like a thtunt. Mike. |
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... JennyC wrote: "Mike" wrote in message ... I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny Very wise. Beware the scam on ebay accounts. [...good stuff snipped...] Yes, but it not ebay..... It seems genuine enough ...... Jenny I'm still suspicious. I received the email, but Yahoo! put it in my bulk folder: surely the real people would have been able to circumvent that? I regularly receive bulk emails that I actually want from various sources -- BBC, Amazon, etc -- and they go to my inbox without being intercepted. And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to write "April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather like a thtunt. There's a nice phishing quiz here to test (and maybe improve) your skillz: http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html |
Glen Able wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... JennyC wrote: "Mike" wrote in message ... I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny Having been to their site (directly) I believe it genuine. However I can only find the subscription service in German. Anyone got it in English yet? |
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:53:23 +0100, "JennyC" wrote:
Did any more of you get an email about the News.Individual.NET starting to charge for their service: effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service............. snip Important notes: Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop working. Users who use the server News.CIS.DFN.DE as part of the DFNNetNews project are not effected by the changes described above. Nothing will change for these users, they do not need to do anything. ??????????? Yes, I got one today but have not read it properly yet. I had been spending a lot of time on the BBC talk garden group and when I came to use my Free Agent (the best news reader) I found it was not possible. I asked CIS.DFN about it and what had changed and was invited to sign up for News.Individual.Net. Diana Jenny |
"Broadback" wrote in message ... Glen Able wrote: "Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... JennyC wrote: "Mike" wrote in message ... I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny Having been to their site (directly) I believe it genuine. However I can only find the subscription service in German. Anyone got it in English yet? http://news.individual.net/register.php (GB version) I mailed them back : I use the News.Individual.NET server to access newsgroups. Does this mean I need to sign up or not ? and this is the reply I got: Yes, you need to sign up if you want to continue using your account for News.Individual.NET. Regards, Bettina Fink I suppose we could all wait until April to see if it is a hoax :~)) Meanwhile I'll try using my providers news server, Maybe it's improved since I last tried it:~) Jenny |
In message , Broadback
writes Having been to their site (directly) I believe it genuine. However I can only find the subscription service in German. Anyone got it in English yet? http://news.individual.net/register.php -- Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds urg Suppliers and References FAQ: http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html |
In message , Mike Lyle
writes JennyC wrote: "Mike" wrote in message ... I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam ! Jenny Very wise. Beware the scam on ebay accounts. [...good stuff snipped...] Yes, but it not ebay..... It seems genuine enough ...... Jenny I'm still suspicious. I received the email, but Yahoo! put it in my bulk folder: surely the real people would have been able to circumvent that? No scanning system is going to be perfect and how do n.i.n know what technique Yahoo use? And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to write "April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather like a thtunt. It is perfectly genuine, the stuff is on their website. http://news.individual.net/commercial.php Personally, while sad I'm not surprised, but I think it just got too popular.. At 10 Euro it's still a bargain. -- Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds urg Suppliers and References FAQ: http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html |
Following up to Broadback
Anyone have any suggestions as to an alternative? I reckon pay the 10 euros, its a good service, why should it be free? -- Mike Reid Wasdale-Thames path-London-photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:53:23 +0100, JennyC wrote:
Did any more of you get an email about the News.Individual.NET starting to charge for their service: effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service............. snip Important notes: Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop working. Users who use the server News.CIS.DFN.DE as part of the DFNNetNews project are not effected by the changes described above. Nothing will change for these users, they do not need to do anything. ??????????? Jenny I use teranews (www.teranews.com) - they charge a one-off registration fee (USD3.95)otherwise it's free. For this service you're limited to 50MB /day downloads (unlimited posting). Which I find perfectly adequate for regular text newsgroups. They have other upgrade options if you want. After a bit of a rocky period last year their service has settled down and is now quite reliable. -- Tim C. |
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