> Also another word of warning: > If you sign up for a shell account with them, the default configuration > on their remote server for doing your email with PINE with > "neandertech.com" is not right. I had to change some things to make it > work for me. Also you will have to pay extra for newsgroup access with > them; however, if you have an account with the free Berlin newserver at > NEWS.CIS.CFN.DE, then you can set it up so as to be able to do your > newsgroups with your shell account by using PINE, and you can do it for > no extra charge. Anyone here who might sign up for a shell account with > "neandertech.com" who has problems with his PINE setup may contact me > by private email for help.
> Sam Heywood That free Berlin newsserver is news.cis.dfn.de (correcting the typo), and information can be obtained by http://news.cis.dfn.de/ You can request an account, they send your user name and password by return email, there is no charge. No binary newsgroups. Sam Heywood, I remember you occasionally posted a message to newsgroup comp.os.msdos.mail-news, which now seems to have gone nearly dead. There is still the monthly posting of the GNKSA (Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval), which now I delete without reading. Does neandertech.com really have local dialup numbers throughout the USA and Canada, for both shell and PPP access? Does anybody have favorable experience with newsgroup access on a shell account? What about email access when one is on one or more busy lists?
