Reminder

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:19:28 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

wrote in message : said:

Just in case folks had forgotten (I had) news.individual.net goes
off-line to non-subscribers in 7 days time.

So cough up now or miss the announcement of Sheldon's latest :-)

Guy
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Just zis Guy said:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:19:28 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

wrote in message : said:

Just in case folks had forgotten (I had) news.individual.net goes
off-line to non-subscribers in 7 days time.

So cough up now or miss the announcement of Sheldon's latest :-)

Nope, <stamps foot>

Are you on commission or summat?

John B

JohnB said:

Just zis Guy said:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:19:28 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

wrote in message : said:

Just in case folks had forgotten (I had) news.individual.net goes
off-line to non-subscribers in 7 days time.

So cough up now or miss the announcement of Sheldon's latest :-)

Nope, <stamps foot>

Are you on commission or summat?

So is it bye bye next week or have you found an alternative?

Tony

"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

JohnB said:

Just zis Guy said:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:19:28 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>
wrote in message <[email hidden]>:

>Just in case folks had forgotten (I had) news.individual.net goes
>off-line to non-subscribers in 7 days time.

So cough up now or miss the announcement of Sheldon's latest :-)

Nope, <stamps foot>

Are you on commission or summat?

So is it bye bye next week or have you found an alternative?

gazeta.pl seems to work

Al C-F said:

gazeta.pl seems to work

I guess if you can navigate your way through a Polish only website to
register it might.

Tony

Tony Raven said:

Al C-F said:

gazeta.pl seems to work

I guess if you can navigate your way through a Polish only website to
register it might.

'fraid I've gone over to my ISP.

A

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:19:28 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Just in case folks had forgotten (I had) news.individual.net goes
off-line to non-subscribers in 7 days time. Just coughed up my 10 euros
to enable me to keep annoying everyone here for another 12 months. Worth
it at half the price ;-)

Blimey, first time I've tried in over 18 months, but the NTL news
server has improved a bit. Time to come home for a while.

Garry

Tony Raven said:

So is it bye bye next week or have you found an alternative?

Sorry, you can't get rid of me that easily ;-)

I moved to news.individual.net after hearing good reports here, but with
due respect I haven't notice any major improvement so it will be back to
see how my ISP is faring.

John B

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Tony Raven said:

Al C-F said:

gazeta.pl seems to work

I guess if you can navigate your way through a Polish only website to
register it might.

'fraid I've gone over to my ISP.

GG2 beta works fine now, Im sticking with that.

JohnB said:

I moved to news.individual.net after hearing good reports here, but with
due respect I haven't notice any major improvement so it will be back to
see how my ISP is faring.

I've always used my ISP. Over several ISPs.

The great thing about news is that it's no big deal if you do miss a
bit. It's designed that way. Serious outages are annoying, but not
exactly critical.

And my current ISP seems as good as any I've used. At least since
open access to uni-stuttgart in the mid-90s (when the local feed was
a sick joke after we moved off BITNET, so I did go for an external
server).

--
Nick Kew

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:56:00 GMT, garryb

[email protected] said:

Blimey, first time I've tried in over 18 months, but the NTL news
server has improved a bit. Time to come home for a while.

Yes, I've been using NTL for text groups for about a year and they're
really pretty good. They have a fairly decent binary feed too, which
is surprising.

--

"Bob"

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"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Al C-F said:

gazeta.pl seems to work

I guess if you can navigate your way through a Polish only website to
register it might.

Tony

From Mr Larrington:
Gazeta in Poland; herewith signup instructions:

---------------repost from elsewhere---------

Instructions for posting account copied from alt.free.newsservers

<quote>
1. Go to www.gazeta.pl
2. Click 'usenet' icon
3. On left you have logon area. Under 'Login' and 'Haslo' you can see 'zaloz
konto'. Click it.
4. Now you can see a form. Blue fields are mandatory. 'Login' is your login
(choose it, you should choose some non-standard one like fsagh34fter in
order not to have problems with already-chosen login)
'Haslo' is your password
'Powtorz haslo' - retype the password
'Plec' is your gender (Kobieta - female, Mezczyzna - male)
'Rok urodzenia' - birth year
'Wyksztalcenie' - education
5. Click 'akceptuje'
6. If your login is already chosen, now you will be asked to change it. You
had better chose one of the proposed, then click 'akceptuje'.
7. Finally, you can see something like:
Twoj login: login_of_thine
Twoj adres pocztowy: [email hidden]
Serwer poczty przychodzacej: pop3.poczta.gazeta.pl
Serwer poczty wychodzacej: smtp.poczta.gazeta.pl
8. Click 'zakoncz rejestracje'
9. Now you have access to news.gazeta.pl server using your chosen login and
password.

If you want, you can use mailbox which you get by registering an account.
The servers are pop3.poczta.gazeta.pl | smtp.poczta.gazeta.pl |
news.gazeta.pl
The login and password you know.
</quote>

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Response to Al C-F:

Quoted message said:

Gazeta in Poland; herewith signup instructions:

Just to update it, if I'm right about this [never signed up myself]:

Quoted message said:

1. Go to www.gazeta.pl
2. Click 'usenet' icon

It's not an icon anymore, it's the "Usenet" item in a list about 2/3 of
the way down the page.

[snip useful destructions]

At the bottom, below the "Zainteresowania" section (which you can
ignore), is a standard anti-bot thing, where you enter in the box the
word you can see in the image above; below that is the usual terms-and-
conditions thing to tick and accept.

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Mark, UK.

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