Re: [Pan-users] [OT] Commercial news servers

[gaw zay]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> On Saturday 13 April 2002 12:44 am, you wrote:
> >  I doubt someone with a 6.25G pay account is looking for a free text only
> > account :-) we have dejanews/deja/google groups for that
>
> You're wrong :) . There 's still other things on the 'net then news (really
> ;) ) and in most groups I read binaries are strictly prohibited. If you're on
> the web a lot, like IRC and fancy a download every now and then, flat-fee is
> a must.

I have no idea what you are talking about here. what does www and irc have
to do with a premium news account? a free text-only account nntp account could
be handy to not use any of your 6.25G account on non-binary posts I guess,
eh.

> And you just don't compare google groups to Pan do you???

I think GG is very good for what it is. I have no cap so I almost always use
Pan except for historical/old seaches. Find me a nntp server with 21 years of
articles on it, and ... well no I won't use it, imagine loading up 21 years
worth of articles from comp.lang.c for example!

Pan can't compete with GG in some areas and GG can't compete in others,
neither is 'better'.

brian
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