NetNews Team’s Individual.NET is no longer a free service

For a Usenet user, it is quite hard to find a decent service which is free and has posting abilities. I found one in NetNews Team’s Individual.NET. However, the latest news in is that the organization has decided to make the service a paid one in the coming months. The mail goes like this:

Dear users of News.Individual.NET,

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 details:
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Effective immediately, registration for our news service is only possible through our web site:
http://news.individual.net/
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:
http://news.individual.net/
You will also find all details on payment options, terms of use, and terms of contract on the web site.

The time until March 31th, 2005, is a transitional period so that holders of existing accounts will have plenty of time for convenient conversion. Sign-up for new accounts or conversion of existing accounts made within the transitional period (before April 1th, 2005) will not cause any disadvantages:

Contracts concluded within the transitional period will last until March 31th, 2006 (Annual Subscription) or June 30th, 2005 (3 Months Subscription) without additional costs. Then the contracts will automatically renew themselves for another year or another three months respectively.

The fee for the service is 10 EUR per year which is quite affordable. I would like to recieve suggestions for any other service which provide similar services for free considering Indian ISPs are quite pathetic when it comes to NNTP Servers and Usenet.

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