- Orange News Server?
- Posted by Keith Willcocks on October 31st, 2006
A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but he is on Orange,
having previously been Freeserve and then Wanadoo and wants to know whether
they have a news server and, if so, what is it called? He used to use
usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but news.freeserve.com doesn't
work anymore.
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
- Posted by Ivor Jones on October 31st, 2006
"Keith Willcocks" <buccaneer@invalidaddress.com> wrote in
message news:6K-dnQ0OJdE1E9rYRVnytQ@bt.com
They no longer have their own news server. I am also on the same system
and use news.individual.net which although not free is very reliable and
worth every penny of 10 euros per year.
More info at http://news.individual.net
Ivor
- Posted by Keith Willcocks on October 31st, 2006
"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
news:4qphk2Fo29siU1@individual.net...
Thanks Ivor. I will pass this on to him (for obvious reasons he won't see
it himself).
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
- Posted by George Weston on October 31st, 2006
"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
news:4qphk2Fo29siU1@individual.net...
Agreed - cheap and mega-fast!
Text-only, though.
George
- Posted by Spin Dryer on October 31st, 2006
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:57:57 -0000, [Keith Willcocks] said :-
Wanadoo closed their news service last March
- Posted by NoNeedToKnow on November 1st, 2006
On 31 Oct 2006 21:01, Spin Dryer <me2@privacy.net> wrote:
As someone else has pointed out, NIN is text only. Last time I looked,
www.news.astraweb.com had a deal offering 90GB of downloads for US$ 25
(they don't count downloading headers, and the quota doesn't expire in
a month like many monthly schemes, or in 6 months, or whatever... I've
about 150 GB left right now :-) Could last a lifetime for a text only
user, for a bit more than double the cost of NIN-for-a-year... but can
also offer around 35 days of binaries (depends on NG, I suspect).
- Posted by Gonz on November 1st, 2006
"Keith Willcocks" <buccaneer@invalidaddress.com> wrote in message
news:6K-dnQ0OJdE1E9rYRVnytQ@bt.com...
Try
news.svr.pol.co.uk
Was workin when I was with Orange.
- Posted by Gizmo on November 1st, 2006
"Keith Willcocks" <buccaneer@invalidaddress.com> wrote in message
news:6K-dnQ0OJdE1E9rYRVnytQ@bt.com...
Handy site for comparing Usenet feed services:
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=2
- Posted by NoNeedToKnow on November 2nd, 2006
On 31 Oct 2006, Spin Dryer <me2@privacy.net> wrote:
I should have said (but followed up about NIN being text only) a big
"thank you for the reminder"... I remember seeing someone posted about
it in the newsgroup, but it's difficult to track what all ISPs are offering
especially when they're an ISP one has never used (or is not using now!)
- Posted by Blair on November 2nd, 2006
"Gonz" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
news:YaZ1h.791$Hc2.22@newsfe11.phx...
news.readfreenews.net
nntp.aioe.org
news.microsoft.com
Blair
- Posted by hampshireandy on November 22nd, 2006
Blair wrote:
Does that news.svr.pol still work on orange?,..if so, how do i set it
up please??
