Re: Another FOSS Gem

On 2024-05-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 May 2024 01:35:05 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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That's when I went with the German outfit (which eventually became
individual.net and became a paid service). I tried to pay them but the
billing outfit they were using didn't like something about my debit card
— so I ended up going to eternal-september (another German outfit). I've
been with them ever since.

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After it went paid they were using a European version of PayPal,
Click'n'Buy iirc. Every year I would get an alert from MasterCard about
suspicious activity when the 10 Euro charge hit. I would approve it and
life went on. C'n'B folded eventually and now they use PayPal so it goes
much smoother. 
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It keeps me in tune with exchange rates. It used to be about US$ 15, but
now it's $10.92. When the EU gets through screwing around it might become
a real bargain.

I think the British Pound used to be over $2 (when I bought Sinclair
computer stuff from England). Now it's at $1.27. The euro is at $1.08. The
Canadian dollar used to be almost even (sometimes higher), now it's at 73¢.

Wonder what will happen when the petro-dollar collapses?

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