OT: My thoughts are with you

On Sep 16, 5:11&#4294967295;pm, "Robert Miles" <robertmi...@bellsouthNOSPAM.net>
wrote:

  ...

> I've found that Tera News is slow about starting to let you post
> anything - it takes a few days after you start an account there.

Grrr! At least I know not to keep trying to reconfigure. Thanks for
the word.

Jerry

On Sep 16, 7:18&#4294967295;pm, Elizabeth D Rather <erat...@forth.com> wrote:

  ...

> I'm happy with SuperNews, too. &#4294967295;I use it with Thunderbird. &#4294967295;Works great,
> price is right. &#4294967295;I started with them years ago, because relying on any
> home ISP was no good since I travel a lot.

I never had trouble using news.rcn.com as a news server from anywhere.

I'll move my web site soon. Now that they RCN doesn't offer news
(binaries too) I have no reason to pay their highish price. A cheap
site host plus a cheap ISP will cost a bit less. Only spammers and
IEEE know my real email address anyway, so a move won't impact my
correspondence.

Jerry

On Sep 17, 12:59&#4294967295;pm, Randy Yates <ya...@ieee.org> wrote:
> Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> writes:
> > On Sep 16, 1:20&#4294967295;pm, Randy Yates <ya...@ieee.org> wrote:
> >> Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> writes:
> >> > My ISP no longer provides news feeds, and I switched to Tera News. I
> >> > find that I read but posts don't show up. I hope it gets worked out
> >> > soon.
>
> >> Jerry - why? SuperNews has been GREAT for me. I pay $3.95/mo for
> >> unlimited text groups.
>
> > I paid a $3.95 sign-up fee and no monthly at all. The server is
> > free.teranews.com and that allows me 50 MB/day (headers don't count)
> > download and unlimited upload. Now if I could only post! (I'm working
> > on it.)
>
> Well, if you can't post, you got ripped off.

Apparently, it's just a matter of time. I wish I hadn't had to find
out the hard way.

Jerry

"Jerry Avins" <jya@ieee.org> wrote in message 
news:0501ff6d-6316-4960-b42c-61641af211b9@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
On Sep 16, 1:20 pm, Randy Yates <ya...@ieee.org> wrote:
> Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> writes:
> > My ISP no longer provides news feeds, and I switched to Tera News. I
> > find that I read but posts don't show up. I hope it gets worked out
> > soon.
>
> Jerry - why? SuperNews has been GREAT for me. I pay $3.95/mo for
> unlimited text groups.

I paid a $3.95 sign-up fee and no monthly at all. The server is
free.teranews.com and that allows me 50 MB/day (headers don't count)
download and unlimited upload. Now if I could only post! (I'm working
on it.)

Jerry
---
Sounds like my account ar Tera News.  It took me a day or two to
be able to start uploading posta there, but then it took a few more days
for them to start doing anything with the posts I uploaded.

Robert 

Jerry Avins wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2:42 pm, "Martin Jensen" <hawkey...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Jerry, I use Outlook Express to handle my newsgroups through
>> <groups.google.com>. It keeps track of all messages read (non-bold
>> type) and unread (bold type). To make the messages easier to read,
>> Google up "OE Quote-fix" and install it; make a desktop or task-bar
>> icon of OE with Quote-fix installed, and use that to start OE every
>> time. Works great! I have had no spam as a result of using Google
>> Groups.
>>
>> Martin Jensen
>
> Martin,
>
> How does one use groups.google.com as a news server rather than as a
> web-based news program? I'm in Google right now, but in a web page
> where I have to use their format.
>
> Jerry

My apologies to all!  I just checked my server's DNS and found that it is 
<news.comcast.net>, which is my ISP on cable.  I was flat wrong, thanks to 
rising dementia (it has reached my chin and is headed for my eye-teeth).

I was using Google Groups and I had exactly the experience you are having -- a 
web page.  I switched to <news.comcast.net> so readily and reliably that I 
simply forgot that I made the move.

Sorry again.

Martin 

Comcast has joined the exodus, their Usenet server will cease to operate 
after 10/25 I believe.

Martin Jensen wrote:
|
| My apologies to all!  I just checked my server's DNS and found that
| it is <news.comcast.net>, which is my ISP on cable.  I was flat
| wrong, thanks to rising dementia (it has reached my chin and is
| headed for my eye-teeth).
|
| I was using Google Groups and I had exactly the experience you are
| having -- a web page.  I switched to <news.comcast.net> so readily
| and reliably that I simply forgot that I made the move.
|
| Sorry again.
|
| Martin 

Thanks for the heads-up Joan.  It'll be back to Google until  I can decide on a 
replacement for Comcast.

Joan F (MI) wrote:
> Comcast has joined the exodus, their Usenet server will cease to
> operate after 10/25 I believe.
>
> Martin Jensen wrote:
>>
>> My apologies to all!  I just checked my server's DNS and found that
>> it is <news.comcast.net>, which is my ISP on cable.  I was flat
>> wrong, thanks to rising dementia (it has reached my chin and is
>> headed for my eye-teeth).
>>
>> I was using Google Groups and I had exactly the experience you are
>> having -- a web page.  I switched to <news.comcast.net> so readily
>> and reliably that I simply forgot that I made the move.
>>
>> Sorry again.
>>
>> Martin 

If you are willing to spend the money, I don't think you can beat Giganews, 
I pay $7.95 a month and have been using it for years even though AT&T 
(formerly SBC) provides a server.  Giganews has such superior completion and 
retention that it's worth the money to me.  I frequent a few binaries 
groups--some photos and fractals--and got so frustrated with AT&T's poor 
performance.  Now AT&T has dropped binaries but I only look at a couple of 
AT&T specific groups on their server now.

Martin Jensen wrote:
| Thanks for the heads-up Joan.  It'll be back to Google until  I can
| decide on a replacement for Comcast.
|

I've seen this one recommended if you want a free text-only
newsgroups provider:

http://www.motzarella.org/

If you'd rather have a cheap newsgroups provider that offers
some access to the binary newsgroups, try this one but expect
them to take a few days before starting to allow you to post
anything:

http://www.teranews.com/

"Martin Jensen" <hawkeye96@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:y8udnZmBJPqszk_VnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@comcast.com...
> Thanks for the heads-up Joan.  It'll be back to Google until  I can decide 
> on a replacement for Comcast.
>
> Joan F (MI) wrote:
>> Comcast has joined the exodus, their Usenet server will cease to
>> operate after 10/25 I believe.
>>
>> Martin Jensen wrote:
>>>
>>> My apologies to all!  I just checked my server's DNS and found that
>>> it is <news.comcast.net>, which is my ISP on cable.  I was flat
>>> wrong, thanks to rising dementia (it has reached my chin and is
>>> headed for my eye-teeth).
>>>
>>> I was using Google Groups and I had exactly the experience you are
>>> having -- a web page.  I switched to <news.comcast.net> so readily
>>> and reliably that I simply forgot that I made the move.
>>>
>>> Sorry again.
>>>
>>> Martin
> 

Jerry Avins wrote:
> On Sep 16, 1:20 pm, Randy Yates <ya...@ieee.org> wrote:
>> Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> writes:
>>> My ISP no longer provides news feeds, and I switched to Tera News. I
>>> find that I read but posts don't show up. I hope it gets worked out
>>> soon.
>> Jerry - why? SuperNews has been GREAT for me. I pay $3.95/mo for
>> unlimited text groups.
> 
> I paid a $3.95 sign-up fee and no monthly at all. The server is
> free.teranews.com and that allows me 50 MB/day (headers don't count)
> download and unlimited upload. Now if I could only post! (I'm working
> on it.)
> 
> Jerry

check you have your smtp (outgoing server) correct, same as your email's 
smtp is what you need.