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Re: Why can't I have an ISP with free nntp servers?!?!?
- Subject: Re: Why can't I have an ISP with free nntp servers?!?!?
- From: The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:00:06 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Oz Regents Office
- References: <BAY108-DAV3D02B40E9C7E0150A56C8C2490@phx.gbl>
- User-agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.)
- Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:6943
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:44:17 -0700, Terry Olsen wrote:
> Ok, teranews really sucks! Since OE isn't compatible with it, I figured i'd use it for posting only and use one of the numerous free read-only servers out there for reading.
>
> Well, teranews rejects 99% of my posts with "doesn't taste right. smells like spam." Several emails to them have not been responded to in over a week.
>
> So lets try mail2news.<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR>
> <STYLE></STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ok, teranews really sucks! Since OE isn't
> compatible with it, I figured i'd use it for posting only and use one of the
> numerous free read-only servers out there for reading.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, teranews rejects 99% of my posts with
> "doesn't taste right. smells like spam." Several emails to them have not been
> responded to in over a week.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So lets try mail2news.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
Since you are using OE (my condolences) you may want to switch to a much
better news reader. There are plenty of free programs available. Before I
switched to Linux I was using Free Agent by Forte (http://www.forteinc.com).
Your current solution isn't much better. You should be able to see a good
portion of your message is taken up with HTML. Since this isn't an HTML
group, reading this code is rather painful to the majority. Particularly
since this is an Apple// group. Those people reading this with their
Apples are likely to be using a text only interface.
My last point is to ask if complaining about news servers is appropriate
in an Apple// group? You may want to check out alt.free.newsservers
instead. Also to test a new piece of software you may want to do so in
alt.test.
Later
Mike