S. Africa Based Usenet Server Launch

swintec

swintec

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Hi All-
I have owned Frugal Usenet / Blocknews for almost 20 years now. Some of you may be customers now or maybe in the past (or maybe we have interacted elsewhere in various Usenet related forums and such over the years) but the last 1.5 years we have been putting Usenet servers in far away (for us) lands that have been ignored by other usenet services since....forever, to see how we can do. "If we build it they will come" type thing I guess?

I like to think that maybe local usenet is better usenet for various reasons.

Long story short, we started with Australia and made our way around to other continents and Africa was the holdout, but not anymore (at least you guys beat Antarctica right?).

New or existing users can now access it if they wish, connection info is in the documentation for each service. Due to local presence now, will hang out here more to assist when I can either through posting or private messages or you can always email with issues (or love letters).
 
crxboy said:
Man I am feeling dumb.... but where are the details?
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crxboy said:
Man I am feeling dumb.... but where are the details?
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I obviously did not read properly - Frugalusenet. Hmm on a cost cutting drive as it is, might just swop out my Eweka sub for Frugal.
 
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crxboy said:
I obviously did not read properly - Frugalusenet. Hmm on a cost cutting drive as it is, might just swop out my Eweka sub for Frugal.
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$60 a year isn't bad.

I'm using a Newshosting subscription which I've had an amazing deal with for the past 2 years for only $44/year. Not sure if that would go up this year though (likely).
 
Still have 3 months of an annual Frugal sub remaining, killed my Eweka (±R600 saving over next three months). I will probably stick with Frugal for a while.
 
swintec said:
Hi All-
I have owned Frugal Usenet / Blocknews for almost 20 years now. Some of you may be customers now or maybe in the past (or maybe we have interacted elsewhere in various Usenet related forums and such over the years) but the last 1.5 years we have been putting Usenet servers in far away (for us) lands that have been ignored by other usenet services since....forever, to see how we can do. "If we build it they will come" type thing I guess?

I like to think that maybe local usenet is better usenet for various reasons.

Long story short, we started with Australia and made our way around to other continents and Africa was the holdout, but not anymore (at least you guys beat Antarctica right?).

New or existing users can now access it if they wish, connection info is in the documentation for each service. Due to local presence now, will hang out here more to assist when I can either through posting or private messages or you can always email with issues (or love letters).
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/informs super cop frikkie
/cc mydstvbots
 
swintec said:
Hi All-
I have owned Frugal Usenet / Blocknews for almost 20 years now. Some of you may be customers now or maybe in the past (or maybe we have interacted elsewhere in various Usenet related forums and such over the years) but the last 1.5 years we have been putting Usenet servers in far away (for us) lands that have been ignored by other usenet services since....forever, to see how we can do. "If we build it they will come" type thing I guess?

I like to think that maybe local usenet is better usenet for various reasons.

Long story short, we started with Australia and made our way around to other continents and Africa was the holdout, but not anymore (at least you guys beat Antarctica right?).

New or existing users can now access it if they wish, connection info is in the documentation for each service. Due to local presence now, will hang out here more to assist when I can either through posting or private messages or you can always email with issues (or love letters).
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Can I DM for a trial account please? Currently using Eweka but would be nice to have 2 providers on different backbones to cover for missing articles. Also I see according to the usenet map you operate on 2 backbones is this correct?
 
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kbgvirus said:
Can I DM for a trial account . Currently using Eweka but would be nice to have 2 providers on different backbones to cover for missing articles. Also I see according to the usenet map you operate on 2 backbones is this correct?
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Sure. In your case if you were keeping both, in your newsreader optimal setup may be Frugal Africa (prio. 0), Frugal Bonus server (which is separate, prio. 1) and then put eweka at priority 2 and then maybe in the months ahead you will see eweka does not get much use at all so you could give that up. Otherwise, with this setup your newsreader will move down the list automatically to find the download.
 
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