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Mayayana typed:
Are there any good, free newsservers?


I was just looking into that the other day. I've been using
eternal-september, which requires registration but has no
fee. I'm happy with it, and they seem to have a non-
commercial attitude, but lately I've had almost daily problems.
I get "unable to connect", "too many connections from
your IP address", etc. I'm guessing that they're overloaded,
though there's no indication of that from their website.

The other day I got tired of waiting to log on and decided
to try aioe.org, which doesn't even require registration. I
posted a message and received the error: "Unable to post
because header is more than an hour old." ! I've never seen
an error like that, and it doesn't seem to make sense.

I did some looking around but didn't find any promising
solutions, so for now, at least, I'm staying with eternal-
september.

Your clock is one hour ahead which explains that one. And too many
connections means that your newsreader is using too many threads (or is
it ports?) accessing the server. Some newsreaders you can set this and
some you can't. And once you get this error, I think the server gives
you a timeout for an hour (or is it a few minutes?).

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Bill
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