So, if one wanted to access Usenet to engage in RC aircraft hobbyist forums, what would be the recommended way to pay for Usenet? Do people just use their own personal credit card? Or something different? Most people outside of USA don’t have access to privacy.com virtual credit cards…. And often payment processors will reject something like a prepaid Visa card.
Would ask in the Black Friday deals thread, but it seems replies are currently not permitted.
It would be like for anything else you may want to pay for - using Crypto if possible. Or any other non credit card payment option.
Some providers accept cash by mail, monero and other crypto. For omicron providers which only accept card or paypal you could get one of these credit cards which you can top up by crypto, or prepaid credit cards.
If you just want to participate in text discussion and not download binaries, block accounts from providers which accept crypto or cash by mail should suffice (added some offers below). They do not expire, so as long as you don’t go over the limit you can keep them forever.
By the way, uploading data is never counted, only the ammount of data you download (bodies, headers from messages are free too). But free accounts cannot be used for upload.
Things like Newshosting or Eweka do not accept prepaid credit cards. At all. So, unfortunately, this type of thing won’t work. Its frustrating omicron does not accept crypto or prepaid cards…
Ideas for Omicron? They only accept credit cards or paypal. Prepaid credit cards are not accepted. Crypto is not an option
Get a friend to buy it for you? And then you can pay them back in cash.