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Dee Earley
Flightless Bird
On 28/05/2010 13:23, Dan wrote:
>
> "Duane Hebert" <spoo@flarn.com> wrote in message
> news:eOSK18l$KHA.5848@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> "VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message
>> news:hto1i4$rc6$1@news.albasani.net...
>>
>>> I asked my NSP as to their intentions regarding the microsoft.*
>>> newsgroups. Below is a snippet of their response:
>>
>> Perhaps if someone knows a free NNTP server that will host these, they
>> could
>> post it here. My ISP stopped supporting NNTP. I use GMane for most of my
>> groups but they don't host any MS groups.
>>
>> Why anyone would prefer these slow stupid web based things is beyond
>> me. Sounds like
>> a bunch of hoopleheads...
>
> There's an NNTP Bridge interface to the new web forums - it'll let you
> use a newsreader to access them just like you can the ms newsgroups now.
> It seems to work, but I haven't played with it much yet.
I went off it when it subscribed me to every group 4 times, then threw
errors about not being subscribed when I tried to access any of them
(TB3.1b2).
And then they said you needed two different bridges for the answers
section, and everything else.
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Dee Earley (dee.earley@icode.co.uk)
i-Catcher Development Team
iCode Systems
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>
> "Duane Hebert" <spoo@flarn.com> wrote in message
> news:eOSK18l$KHA.5848@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> "VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message
>> news:hto1i4$rc6$1@news.albasani.net...
>>
>>> I asked my NSP as to their intentions regarding the microsoft.*
>>> newsgroups. Below is a snippet of their response:
>>
>> Perhaps if someone knows a free NNTP server that will host these, they
>> could
>> post it here. My ISP stopped supporting NNTP. I use GMane for most of my
>> groups but they don't host any MS groups.
>>
>> Why anyone would prefer these slow stupid web based things is beyond
>> me. Sounds like
>> a bunch of hoopleheads...
>
> There's an NNTP Bridge interface to the new web forums - it'll let you
> use a newsreader to access them just like you can the ms newsgroups now.
> It seems to work, but I haven't played with it much yet.
I went off it when it subscribed me to every group 4 times, then threw
errors about not being subscribed when I tried to access any of them
(TB3.1b2).
And then they said you needed two different bridges for the answers
section, and everything else.
--
Dee Earley (dee.earley@icode.co.uk)
i-Catcher Development Team
iCode Systems
(Replies direct to my email address will be ignored.
Please reply to the group.)