Re: Why can't I have an ISP with free nntp servers?!?!?

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, 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.

I'd almost be willing to bet that the posts are being filtered because of
your "no-ip" address. I had a similar problem with mail being bounced
(especially by AOL) which seems to have been completely resolved by
getting a "real" domain name. When I first switched to broadband (canopy
satellite) the tech told me that their dynamic IP addresses are
practically permanent so I shouldn't have any trouble running servers...
Whether that's valid for all broadband ISPs or whether it would help in
your case, I have no idea, but it might be worth looking into.
-s

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