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05-10-2008

Posted by AndyN on May 11, 2008, 4:36 am

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>
> and some are neither.
>
> news.individual.net, YKIMS.
>
> and yes, you have to pay, but it's only a few quid a year and I can count
> the server failures on the fingers of one hand since the days it was
> cis.dfn, just goes to show, things can be reliable if you run 'em right.

http://news.datemas.de/

For a free text only news server. You can post and read using this news
server all you need to do is register with an email address along with a
password and a declaration that you are over 18. It is fairly reliable but
it has gone down for several days which can be quite annoying.

Andy

Posted by Bob Minchin on May 11, 2008, 7:55 am

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Wayne Weedon wrote:

> Sorry folks just a test. Virgin media have forced me to change from
> the old ntl news server. Since I've not seen a single message in here!
>
> Or perhaps the whole group is pissed at Harrogate.
>
> Wayne....

Hi Wayne,

Best method I found was to get to the properties of your current news
server and change that over to news.virginmedia.com.
then unsubscribe from all your newsgroups.
resubscribe to allow the new server to download details of some 70k
newsgroups (it used to be about 30k groups only affew years ago!!)
then resubscribe to the NGs you want selecting whether you want all or
just the last 500 messages.
In this wa you avoid getting two of everything.

Lastly don't be tempted to click on the instructions in the VM posting
cos that is about the old server - tossers!!

HTH

Bob

Posted by Wayne Weedon on May 11, 2008, 3:01 pm

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Bob Minchin wrote:

> Best method I found was to get to the properties of your current news
> server and change that over to news.virginmedia.com.
> then unsubscribe from all your newsgroups.
> resubscribe to allow the new server to download details of some 70k
> newsgroups (it used to be about 30k groups only affew years ago!!)
> then resubscribe to the NGs you want selecting whether you want all or
> just the last 500 messages.
> In this wa you avoid getting two of everything.

Bob/All

Got there in the end. I had to download a couple hundred thousand
headers from the 7 newsgroups I'm subscribed to to get it all to work.

Half the problem has been that here in Poole virginmedia has given a
dire service this week. I had about 36 hours with virtually no
broadband. news server timeouts did not help much!

I've been pretty fed up with them most of the week!

Wayne.....

Posted by kevin heyes on May 13, 2008, 6:27 am

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>
>
>Wayne Weedon wrote:

>> Sorry folks just a test. Virgin media have forced me to change from
>> the old ntl news server. Since I've not seen a single message in here!
>>
>> Or perhaps the whole group is pissed at Harrogate.
>>
>> Wayne....

>Hi Wayne,
>
>Best method I found was to get to the properties of your current news
>server and change that over to news.virginmedia.com.
>then unsubscribe from all your newsgroups.
>resubscribe to allow the new server to download details of some 70k
>newsgroups (it used to be about 30k groups only affew years ago!!)
>then resubscribe to the NGs you want selecting whether you want all or
>just the last 500 messages.
>In this wa you avoid getting two of everything.
>
>Lastly don't be tempted to click on the instructions in the VM posting
>cos that is about the old server - tossers!!
>
>HTH
>
>Bob

I use Winvn and just changed the nntp server to news.virginmedia.com in the
config options.
works a treat!

Kevin

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