Tt&t News Sever Config Anyone?

[bluesofa]

Just moved house and as a result have switched to TT&T maxnet 512K.

Got it all working, including the smtp mail server.

Does anyone know if TT&T provide a news feed, and if so what's the news server name?

Thanks,

Ewan

[PMK]

Hi Ewan,

I am not 100% sure but don't think so. The only ISP I know of that does is Loxinfo. If there are any others I hope people post their names on this thread.

Peter

Just moved house and as a result have switched to TT&T maxnet 512K.

Got it all working, including the smtp mail server.

Does anyone know if TT&T provide a news feed, and if so what's the news server name?

Thanks,

Ewan

[monty]

Unfortunately not any newsservers that I'm aware of...

Apart indeed from the Loxinfo one, and even then it's very limited...

Guess we are stuck here subscribing to paid for services...

[bluesofa]

Thanks Peter,

I also wouldn't be surprised if TT&T don't have a news server.

I was with TOT before and I couldn't find one for them either. I still have a Loxinfo dialup account, but it does seem crazy having to use that to access usenet.

We'll just have to wait and see if anyone replies with something.

Ewan

[johng]

TT&T don't have a news server.

Even if they did you can imagine how crappy it would be...better to just to use one of the public news servers ( if your not interested in binary groups )

If its binary groups you want, then the only ( resonable ) option is a subscription news server.

[PMK]

Hi Ewan,

You're welcome. Unfortunately there was no pleasant surprise forthcoming. And I agree with whoever said that even Loxinfo's is crappy.

I guess it is all relative but USD 10-20/month for me is significant, so I do without, except for using Microsoft's news server, which does have 2,300 groups and of course is free. As I am an I.T. manager it covers 90% of what I am interested in and need anyway. You are probably aware that all the non-binary groups can be accessed by http at groups.google.com

Peter

Thanks Peter,

I also wouldn't be surprised if TT&T don't have a news server.

I was with TOT before and I couldn't find one for them either. I still have a Loxinfo dialup account, but it does seem crazy having to use that to access usenet.

We'll just have to wait and see if anyone replies with something.

Ewan

[briley]

Thought this thread was on SMTP - reading properly it says newfeed!

There are a few free Text Only newsfeeds about. I use readfreenews, I think if you just click on this link it will open up in outlook express

news.readfreenews.net

Thier web page is www.readfreenews.net - but having just checked they are refusing to let you sign up to post messages.

Try googling for free news readers, especially in google groups as I know that this question has come up repeatedly on some of the UK groups.

If all else fails there is an italian site, www.x-privat.org that I think is Euro10 for access and the old german site http://news.individual.net/ that used to be free but is now Euro10 per year but has an excellent record for text groups.