Subj : OS/2 Usenet NewsGroups
To   : David Calafrancesco
From : Stewart Buckingham
Date : Tue Dec 04 2001 05:07 am

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply and sorry for the late response.... been away for a 
while.

> Stewart Buckingham wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

>> Yep it was I who wrote this message originally.

>> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Stewart Buckingham:

>>> [Moved from OS2DOSBBS to OS2INET ...]

>>> Does anyone know of a free public NEWS server which allows read &
>>> write and carries the OS/2 NewsGroups.

>>> Does your ISP not run an NNTP server ?

>> It did, but for some reason it stopped getting any new NEWS. It can
>> be pinged but can't be accessed by my news client or my browser
>> mail software. After much discussion they are not interested in
>> fixing/supporting it. I don't have any viable alternative ISP
>> either. Hence the questions.

> Suggest to your ISP that they consider outsourcing news to an external
>provider. Options are: Netaxs.com, Randori.com, supernews.com, giganews.com an
>a few others. The above were listed in increasing price/connection. Netaxs.com
>runs $75/mo for 10-15 connections, Randori also $75/mo but only 5 connections,
> supernews $20/connection, min 10, giganews $25/conn min 10.

I'll give that a go, but don't think it'll do a whole lot of good unless there 
have been other people complaining.

> So, you can conclude that I was in their same position last month. Blown news
>server, not worth putting new server together. Make a dns change, write a chec
> and provide news to customers.

>>> Is anyone running their own private NEWS server and would allow me
>>> access to the OS/2 NewsGroups.

>>> Jack Troughton is.  I don't know whether or not he allows write
>>> access.  One can certainly read the OS/2 newsgroups from his
>>> server.  But, again, one's ISP's NNTP server is usually the more
>>> efficient choice.

>> Where would be the best place to find Jack?

> Not sure about Jack, but I seem to recall seeing a couple posts come through
>teamos2 recently that were talking about some OS2 newsgroups, or maybe just IB
> newsgroups or something.

>> You can also buy a personal account with a news server for anywhere
>> from $30/y
>> to $30/month.

>> I know, but being a retiree, I *really* wanted to avoid that
>> expense :(

> Get your ISP to adjust your account down by the cost of you buying external
> news services :) Try a google.com search for public access news services. I
> presume that the web interface of deja.com is not what you are looking for.

I'll try the discount approach, but like above, have big doubts that it'll 
work. I tried the search for public access server approached and although it 
turned up a lot of free server lists, pretty much everything on the lists were 
kinda specialist servers or were just dead servers, and I couldn't find one 
public server carrying the OS/2 groups, and I must have tried approx 50-60 
servers before giving up. Nope, the web interface isn't what I'm looking for. I 
really need to download and read offline.

Thanks,

Stu/2

> Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
> dave@drakkar.org

> ... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine!

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