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Hi Everyone,

I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their
Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue
fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't
trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my
credit card statement comes in at the end of the month.

As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while
until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay
them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think
are 'untrustworthy'.

I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's
GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I
may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out.

Purrs to all in the mean time,

Yowie

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Yowie wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via
their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their
overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them.
I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is
when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month.

As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while
until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to
pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank
think are 'untrustworthy'.

I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's
GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I
may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out.

Purrs to all in the mean time,

Yowie

Can't you check your credit card online?

--
Adrian

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"Yowie" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,

I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their
Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue
fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't
trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit
card statement comes in at the end of the month.

As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until
I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them
without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are
'untrustworthy'.

Yeah, I got a phone call from my credit card company that there was some
"suspicious activity" on my card - $15 to Click and Buy.


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I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's
GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may
not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out.

Purrs to all in the mean time,

Yowie

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"Yowie" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,

I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their
Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue
fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't
trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit
card statement comes in at the end of the month.

As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until
I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them
without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are
'untrustworthy'.

I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's
GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may
not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out.

Purrs to all in the mean time,

Yowie

Purrs that it gets straightened out soonest.


--

Joy

To belittle is to be little.
--anon.

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hopitus wrote:

I did not attend college
only medical tech schools; lotsa Latin medical words, no Greek.

Really? I thought most medical terminology came straight from Greek words,
starting with the term "hippocratic". :) (Side question: what does an oath
of loyalty to high standards of medical practice have to do with horses?)

Maybe more modern medical terms come from latin, though. And you did work
in radiology.

Joyce

--
Beauty and music seduce us first; later, ashamed of our own
sensuality, we insist on meaning. -- Clive Barker

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Not sure if you can use it from Oz, but there's also
eternal-september.org. That's what I've been using since Cox cut off
newsgroups. I can't get binaries, but I can most of the regular text
based groups, and I can't complain about the price... ;)

Either way, hope the problems work out!

Purrs-

Chris, Katie, Hazard and Oreo

On 04/08/2011 08:43 AM, Yowie wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their
Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue
fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't
trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my
credit card statement comes in at the end of the month.

As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while
until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay
them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think
are 'untrustworthy'.

I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's
GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I
may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out.

Purrs to all in the mean time,

Yowie

[OT] Probs with NIN
 

On 4/8/2011 8:43 AM, Yowie wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their
Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue
fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't
trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my
credit card statement comes in at the end of the month.

As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while
until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay
them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think
are 'untrustworthy'.

I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's
GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I
may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out.

Purrs to all in the mean time,

Yowie

Click and Buy is exactly why I stopped using NIN. I just didn't trust
them with my credit card info. Good luck.

Probs with NIN
 

hopitus wrote:

On Apr 8, 8:02*pm, bast wrote:
hopitus wrote:

* I did not attend college
* only medical tech schools; lotsa Latin medical words, no Greek.

Really? I thought most medical terminology came straight from Greek words,
starting with the term "hippocratic". :) (Side question: what does an oath
of loyalty to high standards of medical practice have to do with horses?)

Maybe more modern medical terms come from latin, though. And you did work
in radiology.

Joyce
Interested in what you said here, I found a website of some weird dude
who has
written several books on word origins and one of them is medical
terminology.
He has a big chart and you click on a word to see its origin. Turns
out Latin is
the predominant origin but some are of Greek origin. He does not
mention
Hippocrates.
Radiology has its own lingo and pretty much it is a form of shorthand
for the
long medical terms for procedures, machinery, or diagnoses exclusive
to that
department.
Some radiology students have trouble catching on to the lingo and when
one of
them spouts out with the entire medical or technical term for
something going
on, everyone including the docs must force a straight face.
Here is an example: this monstrous therapy machine, a linear
accelerator, is
just called "the gantry" in radiology; I worked in "diagnostic". This
machine is
operated by some friends, who were in school with me yeaars ago; they
are
"therapy" techs; and treat patients, unlike finding out what is wrong
with them
like I did.

http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/phot...1.jpg&pg=linac

Wow. That's not a diagnostic machine, is it? Looks more like it's used
for treatment. What exactly does it *do*? "Linear Accelerator" sounds like
something that might be used for studying particle physics.

Joyce

--
There is no alternative to being yourself.

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hopitus wrote:

(inverse square law)_.
That big round thing on top ("gantry") *rotates* 360o* around whatever
is on the
target pad (under this guy's head) and with precise aim, bombards the
tumor and
the tumor *alone* with yea whater dose of radiation patient's
specialist docs have
ordered. This is not like chemotherapy and does not nauseate patients.
It is, though,
radiation that is calculated to *kill* cancerous cells. It is so
powerful that the tech
ruinniing it is in lanothr adjoininng room watching patient through a
radiation-proof lead glass window.

I wonder how that is different from other radiation treatment that is
used on cancer patients. Or is it just a newer and more precise way
of administering radiation therapy?

Joyce
--
The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a
sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -- Michael McGarel

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"hopitus" wrote in message
...
On Apr 8, 10:49 am, "CatNipped" wrote:
This news applies ONLY to USA residents (sorry, Yowie) but for several
days now on
medica (both tv news and printed media) there has been reported that
some major
company (I don't know what they call this kind of company) that
handles *email* for
some really big USA corporations, called "Epsilon" (right there is a
red alert: named
after a Latin alphabet letter, LOL) was hacked bigtime by corporate
hackers who
now have the *names* and *email addys* of anyone who ever got emails
from the
corporations it services! The news report stted for anyone who gets
regular emails
from retailers to beware of any requests or ommunications by emial for
*more 411
personal, like credit card #'s or full names or RL addys.
I personally have received two emails but they went into my spam-trap
filters, and I
did not open them. One was from Walgreens, which I had deleted my
subscription
for online emails from them months ago, and the other was from a
clothing retailer
I use (its financing bank, actually).
I am NOT subject to the other threat from this happening the media
warns about:
online banking or online personal finance invastion. I don't do dat;
excellent example
this of why I don't.
My first annoyed though was: WTF doesn't this Epsilon encryp its
customers records
*like the medical records of all medical outfits were forced by the
Feds to do and now
have done?* Duh. I guess its a lot of trouble to encrypt stuff and
probably expensive.
Anyway, if you USA residents get any odd emails from your frequently
used retailers,
remember the above. I'm sure you can read all about it anyway.

I got the email about the hackers from a number of companies. Epsilon is a
marketing firm. (Personally I don't care who has my email address. I don't
have a munged address or multiple email addresses designed to dance around
SPAM and all that other stuff. I don't store my banking, credit card info.
etc. on my hard drive.)

It's just common sense if you get an email from someone asking for specifics
such as your address, bank or credit card info, SSN, password, or even
answer one providing a URL for you to "update" this information, IGNORE IT.
For a while I was getting emails allegedly from eBay stating my password
information was invalid and providing a URL to update my information. No
reputable company is going to send you an email asking you to update your
password. A couple of years ago I was getting emails from the "IRS" saying
I had a tax refund coming but they didn't have my information to send it to
me. Really? And when did I ever give the IRS my email address? LOLOL So
much of this is just common sense.

Sheesh, we've all been online long enough to know this sort of phishing is
pure crap. At least I hope so. If not, I'm a Nigerian princess and if
you'll just give me your bank account information I'll send you four million
dollars LOL Oh, and you just won the UK Lottery, too.

BTW, even if the email addys were encrypted, you think a good hacker
couldn't crack it? Encryption is not infallible.

As for online banking, Epsilon doesn't handle banking transactions. I don't
have to enter my email address to access my bank account. (No one should [be
stupid enough to] make their login ID their email address!) I've been
paying my bills via online banking for *years*. Banks have some of the most
secure servers in the world. I realize there is *always* a threat. But
then again banks are insured by FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
and investment firms are insured by SIPC (Securities Investor Protection
Corp). If you're doing business with a bank or securities or investment
company that isn't insured, you're in trouble.

Make sure your A/V software is always up to date. There are also products
out there to detect and delete malware and spyware if you want to take it a
step further. IMHO, life it too short to sit around worrying about it.

Jill