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J - 16 Feb 2005 10:07 GMT

If you are using or have been suggested to use

http://news.individual.net/
Welcome to News.Individual.NET

Important notice:

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. The fee for an account for News.Individual.NET is 10 EUR per year
(annual payment), that converts to only 0.84 EUR per month.

Effective immediately, registration for our news service is only possible
through our web site (Registration). Registration by e-mail (as hitherto)
is no longer possible.

Holders of existing accounts who want to continue using their account need
to convert it into a pay account. This is also only possible through our
web site (Registration). You will also find all details on payment
options, terms of use, and terms of contract on the web site.

For more information (especially on transitional periods and background),
please also check our public announcement.

Please note:

Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop
working.

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J - 16 Feb 2005 10:53 GMT

> If you are using or have been suggested to use
>
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> Effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be
> free of charge anymore.

Create dependency, then charge for it.
I would not be surprised if Google (posting) eventually does the same.
(probably why they are asking for input and "iimproving" what did not need
improving.

Yahoo? Hotmail? ...don't know..
J

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Willcox - 16 Feb 2005 20:07 GMT

> Effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be
> free of charge anymore.

This is because of all the lamers using free news servers for multiple
identities.

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J - 16 Feb 2005 21:13 GMT

> > Effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be
> > free of charge anymore.
>
> This is because of all the lamers using free news servers for multiple
> identities.

Could be. If you looked at "our public announcement" section, it seems to be
a university server.
"Starting with the CIS project (a third-party funded project of DFN) of
ZEDAT of Freie Universitaet Berlin, the news service was expanded by the
feature of registration for individual users in the beginning of the year
1998:"

The more the users, the bigger and/or more servers they need (to pay for).
J

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