On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 04:30:42 +1300, Patrick said, > On 13-Feb-00, Alan R Barr wrote: > > > Hi all > > I have just registered MD ( latest V ) and can get e-mail OK , > > but cannot seem to D/L the grouplist from my ISP , MD starts out on > > its search , but pops up a requester stating " conversion with NNTP > > host has failed . a network error ocurred during read undefined > > error:0 " is this a problem with the ISP or me in configging MD?.... > > I had that when I had the login ID set wrong. I have NNTP auth > unchecked now. When I had it checked and my login name and passsword > set, it failed. I think that it is an ISP thing. Force 9 will not work and yet I've been trying out several of the free ISPs and they do give me the full list. That and the fact that there are Usenet messages that appear on Freeserve (and I assume others) which never get on Force 9 then as a pay for ISP, I'm dumping them. In my tests I've tried Sniffout which has 55,000 Usenet groups. Great, thinks I until I discover they seem to never keep more than 20 on per group. As an aside, which free ISPs can people recommend? I've tried FreeUK, Screaming, Freeserve and Sniffout. I've had problems with signing up and pages in general due to Voyager falling down on Javascript. I'd like to see what CallNet0800 have to offer. The Nationwide Building Society seem to have a good setup. www.Net4Nowt.com is a good reference for such things. -- Julian Richards A1200 in tower Blizzard A603e + BVision 64+2 Mb RAM 2.1 Gig IDE 56K modem 16x CD-ROM Netconnect V3
