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From: goarilla on 16 Feb 2010 16:05 On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:06:07 +1100, Grant wrote: .. > > Failing that, you might use a free or pay for usenet provider. I find > that the free eternal-september.org service does a better job than my > ISP's spotty news server access. > > Grant. i concurr, eternal-september is awesome as a free usenet server (not counting the binaries whores)
From: goarilla on 16 Feb 2010 16:07 On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:06:50 +0000, Bit Twister wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:36:16 -0800 (PST), danielcr wrote: >> hi, this is the first time i'm writing to a usenet group. I've realized >> that slackware's group is a google's usenet group. I want to configure >> knode to use as a news client, but i can't find the information about >> google' servers. please give me a hand. > > No idea what you mean about "slackware's group is a google's usenet > group" > > My Usenet server has 3 slackware groups. alt.os.linux.slackware > alt.pl.comp.os.linux.slackware > free.it.linux.slackware > > I suggest you configure knode to use a Usenet server which carries the > slackware group of your choice. this guy is running his own local lan NNTP daemon>
From: Richard Herbert on 16 Feb 2010 19:53 On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:25 +0000, goarilla wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:06:07 +1100, Grant wrote: > > . >> >> Failing that, you might use a free or pay for usenet provider. I find >> that the free eternal-september.org service does a better job than my >> ISP's spotty news server access. >> >> Grant. > > i concurr, eternal-september is awesome as a free usenet server (not > counting the binaries whores) I'm using news.sunsite.dk. Am I missing out? Richard
From: Grant on 16 Feb 2010 21:19 On 17 Feb 2010 00:53:23 GMT, Richard Herbert <rherbert(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: >On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:25 +0000, goarilla wrote: > >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:06:07 +1100, Grant wrote: >> >> . >>> >>> Failing that, you might use a free or pay for usenet provider. I find >>> that the free eternal-september.org service does a better job than my >>> ISP's spotty news server access. >>> >>> Grant. >> >> i concurr, eternal-september is awesome as a free usenet server (not >> counting the binaries whores) > >I'm using news.sunsite.dk. Am I missing out? Don't think so. Same or similar free text-only usenet access? Grant. -- http://bugs.id.au/
From: Chick Tower on 17 Feb 2010 11:55
On 2010-02-17, Richard Herbert <rherbert(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: > I'm using news.sunsite.dk. Am I missing out? Not in a.o.l.s, Richard, but Sunsite seems to have fewer newsgroups than AIOE or X-Private, IIRC, the other two newservers I use. Since none of them carry binaries, it's not binary newsgroups that are the difference. -- Chick Tower For e-mail: aols2 DOT sent DOT towerboy AT xoxy DOT net |