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On recommendation from this grpoup I have duly downloaded this server
and went to subscribe to this greoup. Answer = 480 authentication
required.

Please explain.

My present server (BT) can't hold anything fo rmore that a couple of
hours so I am desparate.


JanC said:
Been using this free newsserver for years, today I get a 502-you are not
on my access list error.

I just finally got back in and the newsgroups (except this one oddly)
are howing no messages available.

Anyone else having a problem with this?
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news.cis.dfn.de is now news.individual.net or news.individual.de

They had a server crash:

Subject: [Individual] Crash on December 29th

As you might have already learned: The news server News.Individual.NET
crashed on December 29th at about 5:15pm CET (4:15pm UTC, 11:15am EST) and
was not available for the following 80 minutes.

Some articles got lost due to the crash. We did some clean-up and will
re-feed missing articles within the next hours.

Some newsreaders might report duplicate articles. This is an annoying
side-effect of the crash and what we did afterwards but repairing this
would take too much time.

Apologies for the inconvenience,
Christoph
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that and they have changed to www.individual.net so this is the domain
you should be polling news.individual.net same username / password.
Works fine for me.
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On recommendation from this grpoup I have duly downloaded this server
and went to subscribe to this greoup. Answer = 480 authentication
required.

Please explain.
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It's to punish you for top posting and being crap at trimming posts
 
OK!

Both of you seem to say I am doing something wrong and have given
cryptic and unhelpful answers. Thanks - everyone really feels better
for a little useful advice.


Joachim thanks for the link - I gather that one has to register first?
What do you mean by 'learn to quote' - what was I quoting?

Malev - 'It's to punish you for top posting and being crap at trimming
posts' ---I have no idea whatr you are talking about.
 
yup! said:
Joachim thanks for the link - I gather that one has to register first?
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Yes, for using the server you have to register. You will find all
information at said:
Malev - 'It's to punish you for top posting and being crap at trimming
posts' ---I have no idea whatr you are talking about.
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Quoting means to cite the answer you are replying to. Trimming means
that you leave parts of previous messages away that are not necessary
for your reply.

There are several good guides to this topic, to make reading and
answering easier and more smoothly. Try:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/welcome/part1/

bye,

Onno
 
Hi!

yup! said:
Joachim thanks for the link - I gather that one has to register first?
What do you mean by 'learn to quote' - what was I quoting?
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You are playing Jeopardy with us, because you write your stuff on top of
the rest of the discussion.
Malev - 'It's to punish you for top posting and being crap at trimming
posts' ---I have no idea whatr you are talking about.
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Take a look at your posts, then.
If you still have no idea, it is a PEBCAK.

Greetings,

Joachim
 
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