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Daniel G. \"Govende\" McG
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:25 pm
Post subject: Re: Best possible fee-based NNTP servers, costs?? |
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:06:18 +0200, Ruud Harmsen
<realemailseesite13@rudhar.com.invalid> wrote:
| Quote: | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:46:17 +0100: "Mike Lyle"
mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk>: in sci.lang:
with Judy, our unit manager, and Teresa[1], the treatment-team
[1] Pronounced "Teressa", surprisingly enough. Like "Vanessa".
Spanish?
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It's Hungarian, I know that much. (That's what I'm told, at least!)
I have been living at Broome Developmental Center for a little over
two years, but we had someone else as Treatment Team Leader prior to
August of 2004. I had seen various kinds of written information about
how Teresa would be replacing the old team leader, but I remember
being surprised when I first got introduced to her and they told me
what her name was. It simply did not occur to me to come up with any
other possibility for pronunciation than 'Teree-sa' ('Teray-sa'?
'Teray-za'?), although I seem to be most familiar with Teree-sa as
<Theresa>. I guess I must have always assumed that at least 95% of
American bearers of the name <Teresa> (<Theresa>s being excluded)
would have 'Teree-sa' as the pronunciation of their name. Now I seem
to no longer feel that pronunciation to be such a strong possibility:
the <h> could make a considerable amount of difference.
Anyway, I spoke with Teresa yesterday, and I understand that she needs
to check with people on Monday about whether it would be possible for
us to pay money to Individual.net (apparently a German server). In
particular, she seems to feel unsure about whether we can actually pay
to a server based outside the United States.
-DANIEL GERARD "Govende"
McGRATH,
al-AUTISTIQUI.
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:06 am
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"Daniel G. \"Govende\" McGrath" wrote:
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| Quote: | Anyway, I spoke with Teresa yesterday, and I understand that she needs
to check with people on Monday about whether it would be possible for
us to pay money to Individual.net (apparently a German server). In
particular, she seems to feel unsure about whether we can actually pay
to a server based outside the United States.
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Hi, Daniel. I'm one of many people inside the US who uses
individual.net. I signed up using my credit card. If you have one,
or if your mother does and will let you use it, or if someone else has
one and will accept reimbursement in cash, it's very easy to sign up.
If I remember correctly, the annual fee is ten euros, which is less
than $15.00 US. It may be a bit more, but not much.
Given the nature of the internet, I doubt there's a technical reason
why you can't sign up, unless it's local to Broome.
It's good to see you posting regularly. Keep it up. And please say
hello to your mother for me.
Yesalev,
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Bob Lieblich
What did you say "govende" was? |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:05 am
Post subject: Re: Best possible fee-based NNTP servers, costs?? |
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Robert Lieblich wrote:
| Quote: | If I remember correctly, the annual fee is ten euros, which is less
than $15.00 US. It may be a bit more, but not much.
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It equated to about $12.50 Us when I signed up this past spring.
| Quote: | Given the nature of the internet, I doubt there's a technical reason
why you can't sign up, unless it's local to Broome.
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Here at work, everything is behind a firewall system. The IT people had
set up a special port in the news proxy server to handle NIN. Our
company news server lost all external feeds.
Brian
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If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)
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Daniel G. \"Govende\" McG
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:05 pm
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:46:17 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Daniel G. "Govende" McGrath wrote:
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I have been reading through this thread since I posted the original
message, and I can now see that quite a bit has been mentioned
about
news.individual.net. I am considering using this server for my
NNTP
(is it very widely used?). I am told that later today I will meet
with Judy, our unit manager, and Teresa[1], the treatment-team
leader,
to discuss the possibility of using the server Individual.net
including how we would be paying for it.
[1] Pronounced "Teressa", surprisingly enough. Like "Vanessa".
(That surprises me, too.)
But, Daniel! If you need a few dollars to get onto
news.individual.net, some of us have already offered to help out.
Just ask.
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Hey, everyone--
What mailing address are we supposed to be sending the money to?
(Even if I don't need to know that, Teresa does.)
-DANIEL GERARD "Govende"
McGRATH,
al-AUTISTIQUI. |
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Daniel G. \"Govende\" McG
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:29 am
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:06:34 -0400, Robert Lieblich
<robert.lieblich@verizon.net> wrote:
| Quote: | "Daniel G. \"Govende\" McGrath" wrote:
[ ... ]
Anyway, I spoke with Teresa yesterday, and I understand that she needs
to check with people on Monday about whether it would be possible for
us to pay money to Individual.net (apparently a German server). In
particular, she seems to feel unsure about whether we can actually pay
to a server based outside the United States.
Hi, Daniel. I'm one of many people inside the US who uses
individual.net. I signed up using my credit card. If you have one,
or if your mother does and will let you use it, or if someone else has
one and will accept reimbursement in cash, it's very easy to sign up.
If I remember correctly, the annual fee is ten euros, which is less
than $15.00 US. It may be a bit more, but not much.
So then does that mean that Default User, in an e-mail message he sent |
to me (and apparently to you as well), is wrong that payment to
Individual.net can only be made by means of "bank transfer or the web
pay service Click&Buy"? What I was told the other day was that Broome
DC will not make payments via bank transfer or web pay service
(whatever that latter is), but they can do it by means of a credit
card (as well as by the use of a check). Maybe the payment to
Individual.net can get done by Broome after all.
How exactly would the process get done? Is there a mailing address
that the money would be sent to? (Otherwise, there at least has to be
_some_ way they know that _they_ are the ones getting paid!) Perhaps
you could try explaining to me about the whole payment process for
Individual.net. What you need to do there is try to be careful. You
see, although you may have never known this before, my understanding
in the matter of money and banking is very limited. I think the same
thing would go for a lot of other essential concepts. It must just be
that something in my disability should allow me to only study a small
number of rather "specific" topics.
- Daniel al-Autistiqui
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Daniel Gerard McGrath: a/k/a "Govende"
I have the developmental disability Autism.
To e-mail me, remove the six upper-case letters at
the beginning of my address.
[This signature is under construction.] |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:23 am
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Daniel G. "Govende" McGrath wrote:
| Quote: | Hi, Daniel. I'm one of many people inside the US who uses
individual.net. I signed up using my credit card. If you have one,
or if your mother does and will let you use it, or if someone else
has one and will accept reimbursement in cash, it's very easy to
sign up. If I remember correctly, the annual fee is ten euros,
which is less than $15.00 US. It may be a bit more, but not much.
So then does that mean that Default User, in an e-mail message he sent
to me (and apparently to you as well), is wrong that payment to
Individual.net can only be made by means of "bank transfer or the web
pay service Click&Buy"?
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Have you read the web site? Have you sent email to NIN to clarify these
questions? You cannot use a credit card DIRECTLY on the NIN web site.
You must use their designated "financial service provider" for any
other payments besides the bank transfer.
http://news.individual.net/faq.php#1.1
Brian
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If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com) |
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glider
Joined: 05 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:16 am
Post subject: Watch out for bait-n-switch scam |
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TERANEWS (teranews.com) is an NNTP service provider, who advertises "free" nttp service. But in reality is not really FREE. Teranews.com tags on a small fee ($3.95) and callsl it "one-time setup fee", which requires credit card number. Say you fall into the trap and sign up for a "free" account, you will soon find out that the so-called "free users" are restricted to a designated news server, which has all kind of limitation, including a ridiculously small amount of bandwidth allowed per day. It doesn't take much to reach the "quota" ( a few binary files). Teranews.com purposely and gradually reduce the allowable bandwidth to "free customers" and at the same time, they try to "persuade" these "free customers" to sign up for a fee-based service, which starts at almost $8.00 per month for a daily-download limit of 250MB, which is a real rip-off.
On top of all that, Teranews.com's customer service is worse than horrible: they never respond to any customer's inquiries. The service gets lots of interruption and server down-time.
Overall, it would be a complete waste of your money and time if you use Teranews.com for your NNTP needs. There're much better and more reliable services around. Just shop around and avoid Teranews.com.
BTW, Teranews has a sneaky policy of tracking its customers' postings. |
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zarn
Joined: 03 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:27 pm
Post subject: teranews scam artists and theives |
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teranews are nothing but scam artists and theives
I cancled my account in may 2004 becauese there service was so poor (groups kept vanishing and reseting) and there still trying to take money from my account 2 years later.
DONT TRUST THEM
they wont answer any emails unless its of advantage to them so they obvoiusly read them.
they owe me nearly 200 dollars |
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