Hmmm, that's certainly not my experience. I've never used a more robust
AND easy to use news server as DNews. As far as working right out of the
box, well, sure, you have to set a few things but configuration is real
simple and local groups were really simple to set up.
On Fri, 11 May 2001, NetWin Support Auckland wrote:
>At 03:53 PM 5/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>That Dnews News server program sucks crap.
>>
>>I have the latest version.
>>
>>It's manual claims it's ready to go right out of the box.
>>
>>Well, all I did was install the worthless program, and create a local
>>newsgroup. The stupid program works for about 4 hours then it locks it's
>>self up and won't accept any more posts and causes your news reader to just
>>sit there hung when you try to pull down new posts.
>
>:-), This is slightly amusing when you realize that the problem is that
>dnews thinks
>you are a spammer and that's why it's behaving strangely, and from the tone
>of your
>message it's probably right.
>
>If you are in any way genuine email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>and I'll help you solve this.
>
> ChrisP.
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