RE: Re: RE: Re: Giganews Search Utility (was Re: BNR2 Search Utility)

I agree with you Lenny. In this world we often pay for convenience and
that's what it is. That's the hassle you refer to that we pay to avoid. Now
granted, if I wasn't working or had little income then I would certainly go
for many free servers. In fact, in the past I toyed around with using them
first then a paid server as backup but while it worked it was the upkeep I
didn't like. 


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Evzen
Polenka
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BNR] Re: RE: Re: Giganews Search Utility (was Re: BNR2 Search
Utility)



Lenny_Nero wrote:

> Its a testing server (like most free servers) and needs to be worked on
> every now and then this is the point that the nay-sayers miss when they
> say free servers dont work.

I fully understand that free servers are testing servers, thus are not 
always on... and I'm not complaining.

But on the other hand that's exactly the point why I'm using paid servers - 
I don't have to worry about the server being on or off in the very moment I 
want to pull something from the usenet... I simply launch BNR and 
immediately start downloading.

No searching for right-now-working servers, no waiting in the looong queue 
of users 'hammering' the server (), no waiting for slow downloads (that 30 
KB/s is unacceptable for me)...

It's nice to have something for free, but it has to be worth it for me. For 
example, I can be completely happy with GIMP, no need to buy Photoshop...
But all that cons of free news servers usage are simply not worth for me, 
they don't ballance the only pro which is the price.

I can make that 15 USD for paying my NSP in, say, one hour... so why would I

spend that hour or even more by all that hassle related to free servers
usage?
I used to do all that in the past, but find it to be too annoying for me.

-- 
Bye, Evzen


 


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