On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:55:55 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003 11:30:07 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>>> It may be the system your ISP is using. I had no trouble getting the >>> newsgroups, so I suspect the problem is not at MicroSnot's end. >> Possibly. >> So I tried with my secondary ISP, totally different servers and >> software, etc.. >> Exactly the same - bad host, repeated many times before I stopped >> trying. > Hmmm... so some of us can do it, and some can't. It still sounds like > something in the middle of the link, rather than at one end or the > other. I have found that some of my software designed for doing NNTP cannot reach some NNTP servers. I don't know what the problem is. I have found that *ALL* of my software for NNTP can *ALWAYS* reach the Free Berlin News Server, "NEWS.CIS.DFN.DE". You can go to their web site and sign up for an account with them for free. They carry almost all of the newsgroups that are out there. I have always found my connection speeds with their server very fast and I have always found their service very highly reliable. Sam Heywood -- -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
