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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Do they charge the surfer a membership fee like a paysite does in order to view the content? Last time I ever went messing around in usenet it was free.
Every particle of my being as a webmaster says that it is fundamentally wrong to take or accept content that doesn't belong to you, set up a pay site or any type of pay interface, and then charge surfers money to view content that you don't personally own or have rights to.
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Yes, they host the content locally on their servers, so they have to charge for bandwidth used.
Usenet is free, anyone with a decent ISP can download a news grabber and use their ISPs news servers. They are just not as reliable as these other services.