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Jeff T wrote: What I'm looking for is, being able to log into microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (for example) from a public computer.. You can use this link from any public computer.: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/topics?lnk=srg Newsservers are managed by pedophiles and abusers so don't use them from any public machines especially the albasani.net newsgroups that is run by a guy called: Joerg Jaeger but he uses various aliases: Good luck. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets |
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Mayayana wrote:
| 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. As I mentioned in the other newsgroup, it's been years since I've last seen this particular message (if ever). The problem is in the combined interactions between you newsreader, your ISP, and E-S. It is *not* solely because of E-S, and it is not overloaded. 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. Again this is your fault - why is the time setting on your computer wrong? Fix your time, time zone, or DST! I see your messages as coming from the future. I did some looking around but didn't find any promising solutions, so for now, at least, I'm staying with eternal- september. It will work fine, once you fix your settings / change newsreader / change ISP. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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Mayayana typed: 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?). I doubt that's it. I'm using OE. I've been using it for years. This is a new problem. It may be that as a cable connector I'm on a shared IP. (?) But I'm inclined to think these are red herring errors. They're usually around 9-10AM and the actual error varies quite a bit.... but I can always reconnect after a few minutes. I too use OE6 most of the time and after research it uses like 7 and ES only allow 5 (somebody check this in case my memory is off). And while ES claims it is over the limit, they support OE most of the time. -- Bill Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 |
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:17:42 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "Jeff T" , wrote What I'm looking for is, being able to log into microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (for example) from a public computer.. Jeff You probably want to use Google Groups then -- which someone else has probably already said..... |
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"Patok" wrote in message ... Mayayana wrote: | Are there any good, free newsservers? | Thanks, I'll use Google Groups if I have to. Jeff |
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| Paolo Amoroso has fooled around a *lot* with that clock check. At one time, | it was widened out to around a day, so it wouldn't trip up on | trivial daylight savings errors. If you're seeing that error again, | you'd need to complain over on aioe.news.helpdesk . | | "Clock abusers" post in the future, in the hopes their posting | will always appear at the "top" of a date-listed screen. That's | why they do it. And some servers flag such attempts. But in this | case, the check is too tight. | That might explain it. DST started two weeks ago here. I guess it really defeats the purpose of no reg. if they try to make up for it with overzealous policing. |
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| 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?). | I doubt that's it. I'm using OE. I've been using it for years. This is a new problem. It may be that as a cable connector I'm on a shared IP. (?) But I'm inclined to think these are red herring errors. They're usually around 9-10AM and the actual error varies quite a bit.... but I can always reconnect after a few minutes. |
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:17:42 -0500, Jeff T wrote:
"Stefan Patric" wrote in message ... On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:09:52 -0500, Jeff T wrote: Are there any good, free newsservers? Yes. A plethora of them. But most are "limited" in some way. Just do a search for "free Usenet servers." I use www.aioe.org as it has SSL servers in addition to the open, unsecured ones, and doesn't require registration. Stef What I'm looking for is, being able to log into microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (for example) from a public computer.. Okay. You asked the wrong question in your initial post. First, check or ask if the "public computer" is already set up to access the Usenet. If not, then Google Groups is the only solution as far as I know. Works from any web browser. But such access may be blocked. Stef |
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| I too use OE6 most of the time and after research it uses like 7 and ES
| only allow 5 (somebody check this in case my memory is off). And while | ES claims it is over the limit, they support OE most of the time. | You're not making sense. Why would it be connecting on 7 ports? I have 2 ports live, which I assume are in and out. |
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| As I mentioned in the other newsgroup, it's been years since I've last seen | this particular message (if ever). The problem is in the combined interactions | between you newsreader, your ISP, and E-S. It is *not* solely because of E-S, | and it is not overloaded. | That doesn't really explain it, though I have wondered if eternal-september might be seeing multiple connections from the same cable neighborhood as coming from the same location. But that's only one message I get. | Again this is your fault - why is the time setting on your computer wrong? | Fix your time, time zone, or DST! I see your messages as coming from the future. | I'm posting this at 9:15 PM EDT. The zone is set to EST, as there's no EDT zone on Windows. Am I missing something? I've never noticed an issue about this before. Paul mentioned that it could be a problem with aioe not having caught up with Daylight Savings Time. If someone knows all the facts here I'd be interested to know. But if I've somehow got a setting wrong on my end I don't know what it is. |
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Al Sparber wrote in
: Jeff T wrote: What I'm looking for is, being able to log into microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (for example) from a public computer.. You can use this link from any public computer.: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...p.general/topi cs?lnk=srg Newsservers are managed by pedophiles and abusers so don't use them from any public machines especially the albasani.net newsgroups that is run by a guy called: Joerg Jaeger but he uses various aliases: Good luck. bull**** you are ****ed at albasani.net because your account was canceled by albasani for your recent racist post you are the abuser |
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:00:30 -0500, Mayayana wrote:
| | Paolo Amoroso has fooled around a *lot* with that clock check. At one time, | it was widened out to around a day, so it wouldn't trip up on | trivial daylight savings errors. If you're seeing that error again, | you'd need to complain over on aioe.news.helpdesk . | | "Clock abusers" post in the future, in the hopes their posting | will always appear at the "top" of a date-listed screen. That's | why they do it. And some servers flag such attempts. But in this | case, the check is too tight. | That might explain it. DST started two weeks ago here. I guess it really defeats the purpose of no reg. if they try to make up for it with overzealous policing. Daylight Savings Time shouldn't cause any problems. I've been using aioe.org for several years both with Windows and Linux, in and out of DST, dual booted or dedicated, and never had any problems. I would look for an improperly set setting or an ill-configured configuration somewhere. If you're using OE for Usenet access, check it. I've heard too many times of problems that when traced lead back to OE as the culprit. Stef |
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Stefan Patric wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:00:30 -0500, Mayayana wrote: | | Paolo Amoroso has fooled around a *lot* with that clock check. At one time, | it was widened out to around a day, so it wouldn't trip up on | trivial daylight savings errors. If you're seeing that error again, | you'd need to complain over on aioe.news.helpdesk . | | "Clock abusers" post in the future, in the hopes their posting | will always appear at the "top" of a date-listed screen. That's | why they do it. And some servers flag such attempts. But in this | case, the check is too tight. | That might explain it. DST started two weeks ago here. I guess it really defeats the purpose of no reg. if they try to make up for it with overzealous policing. Daylight Savings Time shouldn't cause any problems. I've been using aioe.org for several years both with Windows and Linux, in and out of DST, dual booted or dedicated, and never had any problems. I would look for an improperly set setting or an ill-configured configuration somewhere. If you're using OE for Usenet access, check it. I've heard too many times of problems that when traced lead back to OE as the culprit. Stef It's when a person, corrects the time manually, to match their watch, that the trouble begins. A lack of DST promotion, leads them to change their time setting, which causes the actual time to be wrong. Something along those line. And I have fixed DST with tzedit, back when I was running Win2K. A great little tool from Microsoft. Paul |
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Mayayana wrote:
That doesn't really explain it, though I have wondered if eternal-september might be seeing multiple connections from the same cable neighborhood as coming from the same location. But that's only one message I get. The news client can do more than one thing at a time, given an opportunity. For example, in Thunderbird, tick the (+) box next to the server name, to start a scan for new messages. If, a second later, you click the group at the top of the list, while the scan is still working its way down the list (looking for new articles), that second click can open a new connection to the server, to get the list of articles for the group and display them iu the right pane. The two commands can be asynchronous. If you're a real "click monkey", you could undoubtedly queue up a few connections. And the connections would happen, if you went into the Config Editor and changed the connection limit. (Of course, if the server limits them on its end, it's going to give you one of those fine error messages.) Web browsers (of which Thunderbird has a browser engine inside), also support connection limiting, but users typically set the limit to around 8 connections or so. I've never tried messing with that, to see how fouled up I could make things. To test that limit (8 in the browser), I recommend opening about 21 windows or so (that's how many I have open right now), then go to Task Manager and do an "End Process" on Firefox. Firefox remembers session information, even if killed off in that way. Now, when you next click your Firefox icon, to start a new session, it knows it was terminated in mid-session, and it'll ask if you want those 21 windows back again. When it goes to reload the windows, that gives an excellent opportunity to see how the connection limit affects things. I find some of the 21 windows that open, stay blank for maybe 30 seconds, until they get their turn to open a connection. The connection limit, slows down the refreshing of the 21 windows. I use the "session memory" feature on purpose - if I want Firefox to open those windows the next time I boot, I "kill" Firefox rather than quitting it, and that remembers everything I was working on. It beats bookmarking 21 things, one at a time. Paul |
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