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Help, from all of us on Demon. Since september we have been unable to
get on to this newsgroup via Demon servers. They are continously unavailable to us and 'apparently' in the porcess of being fixed. They were ideally asccessed via Turtnike Demon's own software. However someone has reported many ISPs are pulling their support of groups, mainly becasue they take up too much bandwidth etc. Question: I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird what usenet server should i use? Most will allow you to read but not post. What do others use ? (other than those bound up with OE or dreadful things such as AOL Janet |
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"Janet" wrote in message ... Help, from all of us on Demon. Since september we have been unable to get on to this newsgroup via Demon servers. They are continously unavailable to us and 'apparently' in the porcess of being fixed. They were ideally asccessed via Turtnike Demon's own software. However someone has reported many ISPs are pulling their support of groups, mainly becasue they take up too much bandwidth etc. Question: I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird what usenet server should i use? Most will allow you to read but not post. What do others use ? (other than those bound up with OE or dreadful things such as AOL Janet We`re with Virgin - never had any trouble in all the years we`ve been with them (touch wood!). Pat |
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On 27/10/08 23:02, in article , "Pat P"
wrote: "Janet" wrote in message ... Help, from all of us on Demon. Since september we have been unable to get on to this newsgroup via Demon servers. They are continously unavailable to us and 'apparently' in the porcess of being fixed. They were ideally asccessed via Turtnike Demon's own software. However someone has reported many ISPs are pulling their support of groups, mainly becasue they take up too much bandwidth etc. Question: I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird what usenet server should i use? Most will allow you to read but not post. What do others use ? (other than those bound up with OE or dreadful things such as AOL Janet We`re with Virgin - never had any trouble in all the years we`ve been with them (touch wood!). Pat I'm very pleased with Zen. Their service and techie help is outstanding. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
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"Janet" wrote in message ... Help, from all of us on Demon. Since september we have been unable to get on to this newsgroup via Demon servers. They are continously unavailable to us and 'apparently' in the porcess of being fixed. They were ideally asccessed via Turtnike Demon's own software. However someone has reported many ISPs are pulling their support of groups, mainly becasue they take up too much bandwidth etc. Question: I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird what usenet server should i use? Most will allow you to read but not post. What do others use ? (other than those bound up with OE or dreadful things such as AOL You can sign up for News.individual.net for 7 euros for a year. This gives access to non-binary newsgroups Or there is the abomination that is google 'groups' |
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In message , OG
writes "Janet" wrote in message ... Help, from all of us on Demon. Since september we have been unable to get on to this newsgroup via Demon servers. They are continously unavailable to us and 'apparently' in the porcess of being fixed. They were ideally asccessed via Turtnike Demon's own software. However someone has reported many ISPs are pulling their support of groups, mainly becasue they take up too much bandwidth etc. Question: I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird what usenet server should i use? Most will allow you to read but not post. What do others use ? (other than those bound up with OE or dreadful things such as AOL You can sign up for News.individual.net for 7 euros for a year. This gives access to non-binary newsgroups Yup, been using them for years on and off. An alternative, is to sign up to one of Usenet services aimed primarily at those who use binary groups. Sign up to one of the not time limited, set amount of bandwidth for a fixed fee tariffs. Eg, Astraweb web will do you 25GB for US$10 - for text groups only that would last for many years. http://www.news.astraweb.com/ I'm surprised Demon still has customers really, they long, long ago ceased to be a decent ISP. -- Chris French |
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, Janet writes Help, from all of us on Demon. Since september we have been unable to get on to this newsgroup via Demon servers. They are continously unavailable to us and 'apparently' in the porcess of being fixed. They were ideally asccessed via Turtnike Demon's own software. However someone has reported many ISPs are pulling their support of groups, mainly becasue they take up too much bandwidth etc. Question: I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird what usenet server should i use? Most will allow you to read but not post. What do others use ? (other than those bound up with OE or dreadful things such as AOL Janet For what it's worth I changed from Demon after14 or so years. W.e.f 01 April this year I switched to Zen and retained Turnpike (TP6.05U) which works perfectly. I have an infinitely superior service with all the newsgroups I used to enjoy. -- Tom W. Deepest Dorset |
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"Janet" wrote in message
I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird I would warn you to be very concerned about using Thunderbird. I have been getting emails withattchments containing viruses and whenever I have done a 'properties' check on them, I notice that all come from Thunderbird users. I have some doubts that the Thunderbird users know they are sending out viruses but my killfile has hundreds of Thunderbird users in it now. |
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"Janet" wrote in message I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird I would warn you to be very concerned about using Thunderbird. I have been getting emails withattchments containing viruses and whenever I have done a 'properties' check on them, I notice that all come from Thunderbird users. I have some doubts that the Thunderbird users know they are sending out viruses but my killfile has hundreds of Thunderbird users in it now. There's nothing wrong with TB, it's no more prone to viruses than any other MUA/newsreader, and of course it's much better then Outlook, but then everything is. Having said that, TB isn't the greatest newsreadin in the world. You might be able to enhance it with addons, but I've never bothered to look. I'm not daft enough to run everything as Administrator/super-user/unlimited-user, so I don't have much of a problem with viruses. Even so, I do run the free version of Avast, just in case. |
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On 28 Oct, 03:53, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
"Janet" wrote in message I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird I would warn you to be very concerned about using Thunderbird. Oh bother, to say the least. I was only using it to access emails separately on the laptop. Maybe I'll use soething lese but how you would swt up Turnpike to accept emails and news etc other than demon, I'll never know! Besides Turnpike will only work on 1 machine unless you buy the network one, I need Turnpike (which actaully, bless its little cotton socks) is a brilliant no frills program generally. Thanks for all the suggestions, not sure that zen and virgin are newsservers? |
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, Janet writes On 28 Oct, 03:53, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Janet" wrote in message I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird I would warn you to be very concerned about using Thunderbird. Oh bother, to say the least. I was only using it to access emails separately on the laptop. Maybe I'll use soething lese but how you would swt up Turnpike to accept emails and news etc other than demon, I'll never know! Besides Turnpike will only work on 1 machine unless you buy the network one, I need Turnpike (which actaully, bless its little cotton socks) is a brilliant no frills program generally. Thanks for all the suggestions, not sure that zen and virgin are newsservers? I agree about Turnpike, which is why I was delighted to find that it works perfectly with Zen. All my E-mails, posts etc. managed by TP. The only difference is that I'm no longer driven mad by Demon. Perfect ... except it's a couple of pounds more (but that's by choice and includes VOIP and domain etc.). I couldn't recommend it more highly. -- Tom W. Deepest Dorset |
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from Janet contains these words: Oh bother, to say the least. I was only using it to access emails separately on the laptop. Maybe I'll use soething lese but how you would swt up Turnpike to accept emails and news etc other than demon, I'll never know! Someone from Demon will be along to tell you in a minute. To be sure, I've crossposted this to The Shed, where there are some eDominets lurking. Besides Turnpike will only work on 1 machine unless you buy the network one, I need Turnpike (which actaully, bless its little cotton socks) is a brilliant no frills program generally. Well, there's nothing much the matter with Thunderbird - it's first and foremost a mail program though. It's no more susceptible to nasties than most other programs. Thanks for all the suggestions, not sure that zen and virgin are newsservers? Virgin is an ISP but has its own news-server, and I think this goes for Zen too. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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, Janet wrote On 28 Oct, 03:53, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Janet" wrote in message I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird I would warn you to be very concerned about using Thunderbird. Oh bother, to say the least. I was only using it to access emails separately on the laptop. Maybe I'll use soething lese but how you would swt up Turnpike to accept emails and news etc other than demon, I'll never know! Besides Turnpike will only work on 1 machine unless you buy the network one, I need Turnpike (which actaully, bless its little cotton socks) is a brilliant no frills program generally. Thanks for all the suggestions, not sure that zen and virgin are newsservers? I have universal licence copy of turnpike and it has worked with every ISP I used. Its currently being used for this post using Freedom2Surf servers and also configured for my two backup (pay as you go dial-up) ISPs. Turnpike universal licence was around £25 when I purchased it, unfortunately it's now £199 BTW, I was with Demon for around 8 years until 2000 and left because of their ongoing usenet server problems. Although having changed ISPs again since then I found the Usenet servers from Freeserve, Claranet and now F2S(Giga-news) far superior to the service from Demon. I wouldn't recommend my current ISP (F2S) as it's been bought out since I joined and the service isn't as good as it was 6 months ago. -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com |
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In message , Alan
writes In message , Janet wrote On 28 Oct, 03:53, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Janet" wrote in message I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird I would warn you to be very concerned about using Thunderbird. Oh bother, to say the least. I was only using it to access emails separately on the laptop. I don't think there is anything especially to worry about using Thunderbird. Maybe I'll use soething lese but how you would swt up Turnpike to accept emails and news etc other than demon, I'll never know! Besides Turnpike will only work on 1 machine unless you buy the network one, That's not correct. You can use Turnpike with one 'seat' on a network, but only one copy can be accessing the database at anyone time. however things have changed with 6.07 I need Turnpike (which actaully, bless its little cotton socks) is a brilliant no frills program generally. I have universal licence copy of turnpike and it has worked with every ISP I used. Its currently being used for this post using Freedom2Surf servers and also configured for my two backup (pay as you go dial-up) ISPs. Turnpike universal licence was around £25 when I purchased it, unfortunately it's now £199 Yep, if you don't already have a Universal licence, then it's pretty much priced out of the home user now. However, along with the change in pricing with Turnpike 6.07, you don't need to buy extra 'seats' for multiple concurrent users. A Universal licence now covers you for upto 254 users. So if you already have a Universal licence you are better off now -- Chris French |
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In message , Alan
writes In message , Janet wrote On 28 Oct, 03:53, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Janet" wrote in message I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird I would warn you to be very concerned about using Thunderbird. Oh bother, to say the least. I was only using it to access emails separately on the laptop. Maybe I'll use soething lese but how you would swt up Turnpike to accept emails and news etc other than demon, I'll never know! Besides Turnpike will only work on 1 machine unless you buy the network one, I need Turnpike (which actaully, bless its little cotton socks) is a brilliant no frills program generally. Thanks for all the suggestions, not sure that zen and virgin are newsservers? I have universal licence copy of turnpike and it has worked with every ISP I used. Its currently being used for this post using Freedom2Surf servers and also configured for my two backup (pay as you go dial-up) ISPs. Turnpike universal licence was around £25 when I purchased it, unfortunately it's now £199 BTW, I was with Demon for around 8 years until 2000 and left because of their ongoing usenet server problems. Although having changed ISPs again since then I found the Usenet servers from Freeserve, Claranet and now F2S(Giga-news) far superior to the service from Demon. I wouldn't recommend my current ISP (F2S) as it's been bought out since I joined and the service isn't as good as it was 6 months ago. I blv that OP had been with Demon for some years. If, like me, she had got TP originally with the Demon Suite and upgraded it as far as TP6.05 (but no further), I believe it possible that she has a universal version automatically. Easily checked by opening Connect - Help - About. -- Tom W. Deepest Dorset |
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