Testing...

It made it.

Thanks! I'm reading from one NNTP server, posting via SMTP to another, which relays to yet another NNTP server to get to the outside world. I'm surprised it works. My ISP does not have an NNTP server so I've been poking around trying to find some way to access usenet.

And of course, now that I've found a way, my next task is setting up ...filters. I don't remember this much H&D the last time I was here a few years ago.

Motzarella is good. Text only.

Cheers,

Earle

I had a similar problem recently when this Embarq company took over my service. They don't do Usenet and have no interest in doing it at all to my chagrin. I was doing read-only for a while and then found this motzarella.org. All they wanted was a registration that has not so far been detrimental to me and I get all the NGs and can post again. One-stop shopping. You might want to look at that. Tomes

And it doesn't carry any of those pesky binary groups, so you can't get into trouble like Bill did. :)

Saúde

Earle

News.motzarella.org - got it, thanks, I'll definitely check that out. Their website looks to be pretty straight-forward. I'm not 100% sure how I managed to get a working gateway through one POP3, one SMTP and two different NNTP servers to read/post here without accounts at any of the NNTP's, but it works, so WTH. There are a handful of HTTP newsgroup sites, but I vastly prefer to download everything to my local client for leisurely perusal and reply.

News.motzarella.org - got it, thanks, I'll definitely check that out. Their website looks to be pretty straight-forward. I'm not 100% sure how I managed to get a working gateway through one POP3, one SMTP and two different NNTP servers to read/post here without accounts at any of the NNTP's, but it works, so WTH. There are a handful of HTTP newsgroup sites, but I vastly prefer todownload everything to my local client for leisurely perusal and reply.

I'm proud of you for figuring out how to sneek in through the side gate!

Kate

It's amazing what one can do when truly frustrated. My best guess is that both the NNTP hosts are misconfigured, allowing R/W privileges without authentication for some reason. As long as I behave myself, I'm hopeful that no one will mind.

What happened to your Libby? Last I heard, you were having a blast in it. I like the '08's a LOT. The sliding top is what got my attention. A buddy at work just bought an '08 Wrangler X/auto, and he loves it. Best part according to him is the T-top that comes apart easily and on the fly. Sad but true: I haven't had the hardtop off my TJL yet. One way or another, it's coming off this Spring though!

"Earle Horton" ...

Is there a free one that does binaries? What would that one be? Tomes

It's amazing what one can do when truly frustrated. My best guess is that both the NNTP hosts are misconfigured, allowing R/W privileges without authentication for some reason. As long as I behave myself, I'm hopeful that no one will mind.

What happened to your Libby? Last I heard, you were having a blast in it. I like the '08's a LOT. The sliding top is what got my attention. A buddy at work just bought an '08 Wrangler X/auto, and he loves it. Best part according to him is the T-top that comes apart easily and on the fly. Sad but true: I haven't had the hardtop off my TJL yet. One way or another, it's coming off this Spring though!

Not totally free, but terranews has a deal where you pay a $3.95 one-time fee -that's less than some of the damned coffee they try and push nowadays. The group list is pretty complete. Retention time is fairly short but that is rarely a problem here. Posting time is normally good - just a couple of minutes - but it may take a few hours at times. Still, it was the best I could find and worth the four bucks to check out.

I have had posts show up a day later on Teranews. In my experience, download works a lot better than posting with them. There is a daily limit but still, as Will says four bucks for a lifetime of downloads isn't bad. Get a Teranews account for binary downloads, and use one of the more reliable text-only servers for posting.

Saludos,

Earle

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