You heard me right. Never join them, they stopped to serve binaries groups
today.

So... run away from them while you still can.

Could be worst you could end up like sympattycake with one gigabyte of headers
speed throttled to 2 X 256 kilobytes per second or about 50 kilobytes per
second with no posting and headers count toward that one gigabyte. So mostly
you hit that one gigabyte of headers before you even read anything.

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GameCatcher wrote:

Shaw the cable competitor carries a fairly good selection of binaries on
their servers. has about 7 days of retention with mediocre completion but is
useable. PAR2 can fix most of the broken posts.

"Tony" wrote in message
news:48042E75.434698BC@TheDeli.Sandwich...

GameCatcher wrote:

This makes sense since Verizon is a big shareholder in Telus. It's a
shame really as I was considering a second account with them just for
USENET completions.

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:57:13 GMT, Hades hadesrealm.com> wrote:

Telus has a subscriber, _G O D_ or DEMIGOD, who is a bleeding-heart
activist whose goal is to do away with all prisons. Each post,
featuring 8 cross-posts, contains a list of URLs that apparently
support his agenda. I think that his primary group is alt.prisons.
People in van.general have bitched to Telus on numerous times. Some
of them believe that he is being paid to post his shit.

Point is: Telus doesn't give a fuck. They may have dropped binaries,
but if spam is your thing ....

Give Telus another couple of months and they'll drop usenet altogether. Canadian
isp's = Shit

Hades wrote:

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Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions beyond the
realm of understandability

Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday