German server to start charging

"Effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free
of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service.
The fee for an account for News.Individual.NET is 10 EUR per year (annual
payment), that converts to only 0.84 EUR per month.
Effective immediately, registration for our news service is only possible
through our web site (Registration). Registration by e-mail (as hitherto) is
no longer possible.

Holders of existing accounts who want to continue using their account need
to convert it into a pay account. This is also only possible through our web
site (Registration). You will also find all details on payment options,
terms of use, and terms of contract on the web site.

For more information (especially on transitional periods and background),
please also check our public announcement.

Please note:

Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop
working. "

For that price I suspect I will just pay up






--
Alex


Hermes: "We can't afford that! Especially not Zoidberg!"
Zoidberg: "They took away my credit cards!"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk
www.sffh.co.uk
www.ebayfaq.co.uk

 

Seeing the date these changes were supposed to be coming into effect, I
thought it was a joke - Still might be, you know those crazy Germans!

10 Euros a year doesn't sound too bad.

Ditto.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dr Zoidberg"

Which would absolutely wonderful if it fuckin' worked.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote

It works fine.

I am set up here to get news from my ISP and the GS, in the last two
years my free server has delivered news quickly and efficiently which is
a kin sight more than I can say about the one I pay for.

 

Oooh bugger. I knew we were letting far to many people know about it.

Which is what they're banking on, of course. It goes very much against
the grain but I suspect I will too.

 

Bargain.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember steve auvache

I mean the registration to pay for it page... it just keeps reloading.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

I was going to sign up but I didn't like the look of the page so didn't.
Call me weird, but the look of the page tells me not everything will go
smoothly.

 

Agreed... don't begrudge them that, one little bit.

 

Wot 'e said.

 

Thanks for the info. Done. Worth the money IMO and at least it'll be
the University that gets the dosh. After all the years I've used it,
it's the least I can do to show my thanks for a great service. After
all, it is peanuts to pay.

 

Against the grain of what? Paying money for decent service?

In the 3 years I've used it, it's gone down twice. For 60p a month I think
it's a bloody bargain.

 

You have to click on to open and close each of the documents it asks
you to confirm as having read before ticking the boxes and pressing
the register button.

 

Safely paid up. The first year is 410 days, which I assume [1] takes
me up to 1th (sic) April 2006.

[1] Without doing the arithmetic.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Yup. Just found that out. Imagine insisting people actually read the
shite, eh?

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Just try doing it ten times over while you gradually reduce your
security by allowing third-party cookies, pop-ups, third-party
redirections etc etc.

In email dialogue with them. As if opening a document proves you've
read it, let alone understood it. <sigh>

 

You know why, don't you?
It's because I started using it last week!
That's my fuckin' luck, innit!

How long will it stay at 10 EUR?

 

I cannot think of anything else I use IRL which works that well and that
consistently for anywhere near that price.

Except for the small child that cleans my chimney[1].

[1] Not a euphemism.

 

Just paying money.

Oh aye, I've also used it for several years with no probs.

Not 'alf as much of a bargain as nothing, though. And a tenner a year
is 83p a month, not 60.

 

No, it's 83 Eurowotsits a month. Or about 60p.