Nextgennews.net down and out

[Willy Strong]

Pirates please, sit your one wooden leg asses down.


Swak move though.

 

[HavocXphere]

https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providerdeals

 

[josephzwarts]

Just found this on 1 of the places where i read my "news"

[12:46:05] ***** : Logged a refund request with payfast, since I bought a 6 month sub end of Dec.
[12:46:26] ***** : Good day ****, Please find merchants response below: Hi, The client did not purchase a product that can be delivered, but rather subscribed to a best-effort service. The service, has been delivered and has been used by the buyer. Here s the cl
[12:48:26] ****: ient s usage details, from the 19th of December onwards, which clearly indicates that 1) the service has been delivered, and 2) the service has been used by the buyer
[12:48:45] ****: Then there is soms logs proving I lgged on at least knce
[12:49:39] ****: But ja. Seems like it has been confirmed that Savage ran off with the money.

So if he had sold as he said below, how did he still have access to the Logs!. What a DUSH BAG!!!

 

[josephzwarts]

Seriously mr high and mighty, if this had happened to you you would complain just as much! it's swak how he just took the money and ran. And do think i always referred people his way and swore blindly by them.

 

[balky]

Effective the 1st of Jan 2018, NGN has been sold due to pressure from bigger players in the market. It looks like the purchaser pulled the plug on the brand.

As to what happened to NGN, I am unfortunately bound by non-disclosure. All I can say, is with Astraweb now being owned by HighWinds, Usenet is pretty much becoming one big fat monopoly. Hybrid providers (like NGN was), is seen as the sworn enemy.

As to the rest of the comments that's been made and posted... You're welcome to form your own opinions I suppose. I am not going to be drawn into a public debate as to what did and did not happen. The simple fact is, I can not talk about it.

In this sales agreement that you signed, I assume you insisted that they include a clause stating that the buyer would not drop paid-up customers? Or did you not care about paid-up customers?

 

[josephzwarts]

Plus i received a damn block account expiry notice from him asking to renew this morning.

 

[gopes]

Bought a 1Tb block account through PayPal on 16 Dec. been using them for years and he was always very helpful.....
Now this
I understand **** happens but the communication could’ve been better.

 

[cavedog]

WTF is this thread now doing in Entertainment.....

This is a usenet service not a show :wtf:

 

[MickeyD]

WTF is this thread now doing in Entertainment.....

This is a usenet service not a show :wtf:

/agree

 

[cavedog]

/agree

 

[IceQB]

Next thing he'll do is change nicknames or probably already have another alias registered.
A real "Zuma" move

 

[Joka69]

Anybody know if there's another local news provider? An alternative to this awesome service?

 

[acp]

Anybody know if there's another local news provider? An alternative to this awesome service?

Also keen to know. Have asked a few times.
Or is it a 'dime a dozen' scenario?

 

[KleinM]

Got a premium block from https://free-usenet.com/. You can also get a free account from them, though that is very slow.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Anybody know if there's another local news provider? An alternative to this awesome service?

Also keen to know. Have asked a few times.
Or is it a 'dime a dozen' scenario?

Why do you want a local provider?

NGN wasn't exactly local, the site wasn't hosted in SA and the backbone wasn't here either, the only thing was the owner and that they charged in Rands.

 

[Joka69]

Why do you want a local provider?

NGN wasn't exactly local, the site wasn't hosted in SA and the backbone wasn't here either, the only thing was the owner and that they charged in Rands.

Payment method... It allowed for payfast, which is how I pay for most SA stuff.

I don't have a credit card, so can't purchase from anywhere else, for local credit card purchases I use VCPAY, and they don't allow international transactions, (even if you 'upgrade' your account)

But, regardless, I'm not that keen anyway, I still use the news.is server because I'm with cool ideas, very low failure rate.

The only reason I wanted a back up Usenet account was when I wanted to get older content. But I will deal with that when it comes.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Payment method... It allowed for payfast, which is how I pay for most SA stuff.

I don't have a credit card, so can't purchase from anywhere else, for local credit card purchases I use VCPAY, and they don't allow international transactions, (even if you 'upgrade' your account)

But, regardless, I'm not that keen anyway, I still use the news.is server because I'm with cool ideas, very low failure rate.

The only reason I wanted a back up Usenet account was when I wanted to get older content. But I will deal with that when it comes.

PayPal?

 

[Joka69]

PayPal?

Not banking with FNB, not as easy to load on Pay Pal account.

I've tried.

Used to use Entropay (used 12payonline to load the credit card, until they shut down completely) to create virtual credit cards, always worked perfectly.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Not banking with FNB, not as easy to load on Pay Pal account.

I've tried.

Used to use Entropay (used 12payonline to load the credit card, until they shut down completely) to create virtual credit cards, always worked perfectly.

I have my Capitec card on PayPal, it was easy to add, I used it just yesterday.

 

[acp]

Why do you want a local provider?

NGN wasn't exactly local, the site wasn't hosted in SA and the backbone wasn't here either, the only thing was the owner and that they charged in Rands.

I should have clarified it better: not concerned with local vs international nor about payment method.

Just need a good backup block provider for those items which I cannot obtain through a local ISP's nntp server, mostly due to their retention periods generally being somewhat shorter (ca 200 days, sometimes little longer)

So far I like Free-usenet and Newsdemon from a block perspective - haven't investigated much beyond that as it seems that ultimately most of them are Highwinds downstream providers regardless, so its really down to what's the 'best deal of the day' it seems.