Exactly!!! And if someone is financially so well inclined that they can pay to use giganews the entire month, why are they even posting in this thread??!! It has absolutely nothing to do with them..
Am sick and tired of this whole idiotic mentality of "not talking about the news server, in case someone new finds out". Guess what....they are entitled to find out, they pay for their connection!
The problem is not too many connections, the problem is the slacker sh!tty service that we are getting from the eternal victim IS
o well i dont care anymore, yes but calling ppl cheap when those accounts cost next to nothing is a rather cheap shot considering its using international bandwidth to download
not everyone has 1k or more to blow on an int news server
yes the IS news server is slow but i've never been a selfish person and i dont intend on becoming one, if anything being cheap is keeping the IS news server for yourself because your to cheap to spend a ton of money on int new servers
Read again, the suggestion was to try an international server in order to realise what the IS one was like not too long ago. Nobody said anything about forking out R1k a month for bandwidth costs + account costs, just to try an account for one month with a couple of gigs international bandwidth that most people can afford.
I don't recall anybody saying keep it for yourself either. If anybody has a question then by all means ask, just ask somebody via PM. People, including myself, would be more than willing to help out. It's odd how people keep missing this part. Going out of your way to promote it, and helping out people who are curious, are two different things. The first is being selfish to existing users, the second is being helpful.
Anyway I don't care anymore. If you guys insist that you know better than others when it comes to network infrastructure and particularly usenet infrastructure then go on and promote it. Just DON'T bitch and moan at IS when your speeds drop to 0.5kB/s, because you knew exactly what your actions would entail. They have no reason to upgrade their news servers because it's not a selling point contrary to what you may think. They're selling you local bandwidth, not a daily fix of porn and movies. And I don't buy that you people are using it for Linux distros and other free open source stuff because they have a great FTP server for all that.
If people want to find out about how to download whatever they want, they should make an effort to find out and then ask if they have any questions. But existing users going out of their way to promote this even to people who weren't necessarily interested initially, will obviously make them try it just because the idea of free downloads sounds so tempting.
The bottom line is don't help someone who doesn't need help, you're only shooting yourself in the foot.
Now I might have been inclined to help you guys get full speed uncached, but if you insist on fscking with people's speeds then you can ****. In this respect, I WILL be selfish because obviously people don't appreciate it when you help them. As I said, I don't care anymore. I'm getting my full speed which I would have shared, so if you guys want to screw up your own speeds then go ahead and do so. Just don't complain later on because you'll only get a big 'fsck you' from quite a lot of people.
PS: killadoob I still have your PM's where I went out of my way to help you and make things easy for you to understand when you were getting started, so I would appreciate you not calling me selfish or cheap.
