| Re: Req: House of Games |
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| samjack (stick@spamup.ass) |
2009/10/26 15:18 |
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From: samjack <stick@spamup.ass>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.dvd.criterion
Subject: Re: Req: House of Games
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:18:57 -0400
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I'm on Easynews and about a third of the sections are incomplete.
Thanks for those remarks. No offense taken. - samjack
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:16:56 -0500, quiet1 <quiet1@home.com> wrote:
>If you subscribe to a premium usenet provider, the NZB file posted
>here earlier today will point you to your request. This article
>resides in this newsgroup and has been available to all wish to
>retrieve it for the past 353 days.
>
>In my personal humble opinion it is in bad form to request something
>that is still available online.
>
>Giganews offers 444 days retention and building daily, Astraweb is
>at 435 days +, and many others now offer over a full year retention
>as well. Subscriptions can be had for less than $10 a month, and
>most if not all offer a free trial that would easily allow you to
>fill your own request with no cost to you but a small amount of
>effort on your part ... may I add ... far less effort in my opinion
>then would have to be expended by another to fill your request.
>
>Please understand that my remarks here are meant to critize, but to
>be educational.
>
>Usenet is awash in countless terabytes of wasted data which has been
>posted, and reposted many times over and over for no good reason,
>while the original articles are still available online ... not to
>mention the growing problem of spam, etc. This all adds up to wasted
>space on servers which taxes resources that if properly used would
>allow for even greater retention, higher speed, and reduced
>operating costs for providers ... which just might equate to better
>cheaper options for us all.
>
>Please don't burden those who have given so much of their personal
>time and effort and asked nothing in return. The NZB you need is
>here ... use it and you request is filled ... easy as pie!
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