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Adrian - 25 Jun 2005 21:16 GMT

My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
backup.

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CK - 25 Jun 2005 21:22 GMT

> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
> backup.

I've been fairly OK with the new Beta-version of Google Groups for one
group that my ISP doesn't provide at all (in spite of repeated requests).
http://groups-beta.google.com/

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Adrian - 25 Jun 2005 21:42 GMT

>> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
>> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
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> group that my ISP doesn't provide at all (in spite of repeated
> requests). http://groups-beta.google.com/

I tried Google before I tried other news servers, I prefer to read using
Outlook Express because that's what I'm used to. Thanks for the thought
though, at least I know one way or another I can at least read this
group.

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CK - 25 Jun 2005 22:11 GMT

>>>My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
>>>news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> though, at least I know one way or another I can at least read this
> group.

Thanks for the tip re readfreenews.net. I also signed up with them, and
noticed they provide the ng I mentioned above, but when I tried to post
thru them (via Mozilla Thunderbird, as I don't use OE) it didn't work.
Is there a trick or catch to using their services or do I have to wait a
while for connections to work?

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Adrian - 25 Jun 2005 22:15 GMT

>>>> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
>>>> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
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> didn't work. Is there a trick or catch to using their services or do
> I have to wait a while for connections to work?

Sorry to cause confusion, I couldn't post via readfreenews either, only
read. Now posting using news.aioe.org

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Christine K. - 25 Jun 2005 22:36 GMT

>>Thanks for the tip re readfreenews.net. I also signed up with them,
>>and noticed they provide the ng I mentioned above, but when I tried
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> Sorry to cause confusion, I couldn't post via readfreenews either, only
> read. Now posting using news.aioe.org

Well, thanks again, two good tips in one day! :) It's good to have a few
backup plans, if only to read a group (via readfreenews). And aioe.org
also provides the ng I mentioned earlier, the one my ISP doesn't have.

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Adrian - 25 Jun 2005 22:53 GMT

>>> Thanks for the tip re readfreenews.net. I also signed up with them,
>>> and noticed they provide the ng I mentioned above, but when I tried
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> aioe.org also provides the ng I mentioned earlier, the one my ISP
> doesn't have.

I'm glad to be of help.

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Christina Websell - 25 Jun 2005 21:38 GMT

> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
> backup.
> --

What? uni-berlin is down? I haven't noticed although I have have neither
read nor posted much today.

Tweed

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Adrian - 25 Jun 2005 21:51 GMT

>> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
>> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
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>
> Tweed

No, I haven't used uni-berlin since they started charging, I use my
ISP's server instead, mainly because they carry the binary groups and
have been pretty reliable up to now.

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jmcquown - 26 Jun 2005 02:51 GMT

> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
> backup.

I had problems with mine the other day. Here I wasted at least an hour
doing maintenance on my PC (okay, it needed tweaking anyway) before I
checked my ISP's telco forum on the web and found a post from the
"newsmaster" explaining they were working on replacing routers or something.
I suppose I could always post via Google but I hate their groups interface.

Jill

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Adrian - 26 Jun 2005 10:48 GMT

>> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
>> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
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>
> Jill

I'm glad to say it's back up this morning. I had emailed my ISP and got
a reply, it should be back by Tuesday am. I'm glad it was a lot sooner
than that.

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jmcquown - 26 Jun 2005 19:54 GMT

> >> My ISP's newsserver has been down for over 2 hours, so I'm giving
> >> news.readfreenews.net a try, hopefully I'll be able to use it as a
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> a reply, it should be back by Tuesday am. I'm glad it was a lot sooner
> than that.

Techs like to give themselves an extra "window" because you never know
what's going to happen when there are problems. I'm glad they got you back
up and running so quickly! My ISP is also my local phone company and they
are very good about fast fixes.

Jill

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