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Accessing other News Servers
PeterD p...@se.ask winnipeg general wpg general There is a bit of misleading information about how to access news servers not part of your ISP's domain. Unfortunately the information and opinion is based on either the inability to think clearly or the mistaken belief that whatever a single person does becomes a sort

The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence's Idiot Son
Adam H. Kerman a...@chinet.chinet.com alt config Robert F. Golaszewski <rfg...@worldshare.net> wrote: Noodling around with some testing using a number of news servers a few days ago, I may have discovered an explanation of why some of the alt.* NGs exist that are out there on a number of servers, some quite active,

Where's the news.creative.com server?
The other is: The developer is adding a news server to their own site. The problem with that is, I usually use FA to read news only at my ISP's news server. Even dumb old Outlook Express can read news from multiple servers. But from what I can see, Agent cannot. Is this correct? Agent (and Free Agent) 1.xx can

Pitfalls of Newsgroup Moderation
FredW fr...@ninmule.invalid news software readers On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:23:05 -0800 (PST), george wrote: List of free public news servers. Include the information of the speed and number of new groups for each server. http://www.geocities.com/zihinews/ news.f.de.plusline.net with two speeds? hmmm.

List of Free public access news servers.!
Graham Drabble graham.drab...@lineone.net uk net endb...@yahoo.com (John Edgar) wrote in news:3bb0a8fa.3290...@news.btinternet.com: Could someone please explain exactly how news servers work? Others can probably do better but here is a quick overview. Each news server, of which there are 1000s agrees to pass

ACS and GCI Usenet news servers
The OP specifically asked how to access the newsgroup via a web browser. Pointing out that he could just as well use OE or somesuch isn't as helpful as you might think. For instance, not all providers offer a news server. If this is the case, you're new user(s) has got OE, but nowhere to point it.

Bug#466230: leafnode: [debconf_rewrite] Debconf templates and ...
All emails come directly to my mail server in real time. I have Outlook Express check for messages every 20 minutes. The mail server can block most spam and email virii. I use Grisoft AVG for virus protection. I also use Outlook Express to access the German news server and the SBC Global server provided by my own

News servers
But here's one to wrap your mind around - those illegal files are now residing on the news servers disks, which would make the owner of the news server(s) guilty The news server owner does not know, let alone care, what or which files may be illegal. As the court said, the news server is "acting as a portal".

free newsservers working off port 80?
FWIW these are the server names I was told to use by my ISP and separately by RemarQ. What do I do? Richard Smith wrote: Rick wrote: Hi Well, since Communicator allows you to add different news servers and subcribe to different groups on each server, is there an obvious way to do this without Communicator

Questions about security for news-servers
It's like there is a global variable in place that is being pushed into the reply message's News Server name field. It's not 100% foolproof either, so it's almost like it's happening on a timed basis, possibly when OE is downloading messages. Steps to reproduce: 1) Sign up to two different news servers (not one

441 - Unable to post to news server
Eugene A. Calame eacal...@excite.com alt free newsservers On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:02:45 GMT, "doug(tm)" <spaml...@spam.org> wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:22:56 GMT, DreamerMan <dreamer...@crosswinds.net> wrote about Sick of so-called free news servers: My question is this. Does anyone out there know of any posting

Administering a Sound Usenet II Site (INN)
When I try to configure it it asks me for my news-server. So I am guessing that a news-server is like a web-server which hosts various news groups. Sort of. The big difference between Web servers and news servers is that whereas a particular Web page is usually available on only one particular Web server,

Bug#466466: [INTL:gl] Galician debconf template translation for ...
Sandwich alt free newsservers Piss off. freefreeho...@yahoo.com wrote: List of Free Usenet servers List of free public news servers. Include the information of the speed and number of new groups for each server. http://www.geocities.com/zihinews/ -- Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday.

Free News Servers
Right now your news-server is Google Groups. As Huey mentions, there are several free news-servers out there; and also some cheap ones. Some posts you'll just never see because your news-server didn't pick them up. I get around this by using several news-servers and having the results merged into a single set

Looking for new news server
Would I need a news service with Agent? I am only concerned with being able to access the Microsoft newsgroups. I assume there is a way to use Microsoft's news server with Agent. If not, please advise. Thank you again. CB Yes, you do need a news service,and Microsoft offers theirs. However, I'm not sure how large

news-server: Takes forever to retrieve headers!
Harlequin harleq...@fnord.org.uk alt 2600 hackerz alt 2600 NB News servers, especially those that allow posting, often close down when they become too popular (and sometimes open again later), therefore any static list is unreliable. They are also being closed down due to abuse by spammers and persons using them

Small buglet 5 beta 2u (and maybe before) changing news server
Michael Santovec michael_santo...@prodigy.net microsoft public win98 internet outlookexpress The error comes from the NNTP news server. 48x - Command was correct, but couldn't be performed for some reason. - Nonstandard (private implementation) extensions You may want to create an NNTP log with will show more

News Servers around the world. Help!
wind-sun.com> wrote: I don't think it is possible to close a newsgroup. A server can stop carrying it, but they seem to take on a life of their own once Microsoft's server is just like all others. If Microsoft removes the group from their server, this will hardly have any effect on all other news servers.

Screw this SHITTY newsgroup, there is a MUCH better forum at ...
Whiskers catwhee...@operamail.com 24hoursupport helpdesk On 2008-02-13, brick...@gmail.com <brick...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi I have been using a free news server for a couple of years and all has been well until recently when my postings seem to not make it to the list for long periods of time---days not hours.

NEWS SERVERS.
templates:2001 msgid "" "The name of the news server should be provided by the organization providing " "you with network access, such as your Internet Service .... Many other news servers also use this directory to store their " "news database and you may wish to keep it even when removing the leafnode " "package.