News problem

[Robert Todd]

If it's a newsfeed they want, I can give them an NNTP newsfeed.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Seth" <johnseth at phoenixwing.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: News problem


> BuffNET hasn't outsourced their newsgroups yet huh?  I would've thought
> they would have by now, expecially since that fiasco with the NYS
> Attorney General and Dreamscape that happened when I worked there.
>
> There may be free news providers, but I'm not sure about which are good
> and not, maybe someone else can fill in that info.  Meanwhile, check out
> google for their newsgroups: http://groups.google.com/
>
> From the link you show, it looks like it's trying to use Netscape own
> news server and not your ISP's, but I'm not 100% familiar with it.  My
> ISP outsources to corp.supernews.com, so you may check into
> SuperNews.com's subscription service if you plan on using newsgroups
> often.
>
> Hope it helps some...
>
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>
> > I want to subscribe to
> >
> >     * Unix and Linux - netscape.mozilla.user.unix
> >       <snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix>
> >
> > but apparently, it's not available on my ISP's news server
> > news.buffnet.net.  How do I get around this?
> >
> > Joe
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> > must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and
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> > physicist"
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> >
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