Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out Date: 15 Mar 2026 05:03:20 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <10p556b$p74h$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net raMcgrs3AfF7eNcABkC3ywErMYCzS1K1qKRc/vKPyK/eqoSsYo Cancel-Lock: sha1:dnSYiyFnV1VDBpAhB0K7mrHTVAA= sha256:0mhxh+YzeroW3YfcftqyuKAdgXSmcdWPGGSVMFhZOoM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83022 On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:23:05 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > When I was younger and had money to spare I was a client of Individual > news.net. > They changed their way they billed and my cc was no longer acceptable > for reasons not entirely clear. They were a very good service and I > wish they had not shut down or changed the payment method. They were using a European version of PayPal, something like Click'n'Buy. Every year MasterCard would flag the transaction and call to verify the charge. Quite a few years back they switched to PayPal and it's a lot smoother. I can handle 10 Euros a year. Besides it keeps me in touch with the exchange rate. Way back my ISP had usenet. It was rather slow and I could get usenet from Berlin a lot faster than 8 miles away. The ISP dropped it since usenet required a lot of spinning rust when drives were measured in GB not TB. Individual.net was free at that time.