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news server question?
hi,
i kno that this is off topic...but i kno u guys are very smart....does anyone know the news server to use if you have AOL? thx in advance rob |
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Matt wrote:
hi, i kno that this is off topic...but i kno u guys are very smart....does anyone know the news server to use if you have AOL? thx in advance When I had AOL in the UK, they said that they do not support newsgroups. At that point I signed up to news.cis.dfn.de Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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Ed wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:42:03 GMT, "Matt" wrote: hi, i kno that this is off topic...but i kno u guys are very smart....does anyone know the news server to use if you have AOL? thx in advance rob I don't think AOL carries groups, just one of the many reasons to get a real ISP. ;P AOL carries groups. Use keyword "newsgroups" to subscribe to groups of your choice. Not only does AOL carry groups but I was one of two people who proposed the creation of the rec.photo.equipment.aps newsgroup. After it passed the vote, we just asked AOL to carry it and it showed up. |
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i was just asking because i have rr news server and when i try do download
binary files for games....they are always incomplete...thx anyways "Supertimer" wrote in message ... Ed wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:42:03 GMT, "Matt" wrote: hi, i kno that this is off topic...but i kno u guys are very smart....does anyone know the news server to use if you have AOL? thx in advance rob I don't think AOL carries groups, just one of the many reasons to get a real ISP. ;P AOL carries groups. Use keyword "newsgroups" to subscribe to groups of your choice. Not only does AOL carry groups but I was one of two people who proposed the creation of the rec.photo.equipment.aps newsgroup. After it passed the vote, we just asked AOL to carry it and it showed up. |
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AOL is not an ISP, therefore has a 'watered down' internet and no
newsgroups. AOL sucks. "Matt" wrote in message ... hi, i kno that this is off topic...but i kno u guys are very smart....does anyone know the news server to use if you have AOL? thx in advance rob |
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:32:31 GMT, "Matt" wrote:
i was just asking because i have rr news server and when i try do download binary files for games....they are always incomplete...thx anyways I have RR also. The newsgroup servers are for each area so completion and retention vary from place to place. Mostly the NYC newserver is very good on completion but retention is only 16 hours or so for big binary groups. It can get really bad for a month or so when something goes wrong but eventually they figure it out and it gets good again. What many of us binary users do is get a back up paid newserver (I use giganews) and a newsreader than can use the ISP newserver (read "free") for whatever segments are on it and just fill in missing segments from the paid one. I use newsbin pro, which is absolutely seamless for merging the two servers. I don't even know which parts are missing on RR unless I actually look at the properties for each binary. |
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