Newsreaders

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mildred Savalier
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Might try looking here for a news server that support the BoSox newsgroup:
http://freenews.maxbaud.net/

Or you can always use Google.
http://news.google.com/advanced_news_search?hl=en&ned=us

The problem with WM is that if the server hosts several thousand newsgroups
(as most alt.servers do) you'll never download a complete listing, so my
earlier thought was to just create an account with a news server and then
use the link method to create a subscription to a particular group once
you've determined the server "hosts" that newsgroup:
news://name_of_news_server/name_of_newsgroup

FWIW, I use FreeNews for alt.groups.
Server name is:
news.readfreenews.net
 
Dilly:

Pssst, don't tell anyone, but click on this link:
news://news.readfreenews.net/alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox
 
Jim
Very weird stuff here.
I bought a new hard drive so I reinstalled Vista.
I see several differences but I will stick to mail and news for now.
Before I could not add news groups or servers from a link or from the run
command line now I can. I just added my Comcast server with my redsox ng
and it went right in with the link you made. I also added that free server
with the link you made. It works now but not before .
If anyone is reading this with the same problem YELL I have a idea to try
and fix it.
LOL
Humor me :)
 
Dilly: It gets "stranger and stranger." You are running Build 5384 of
Vista right? The links should have worked in any version since the syntax
has been around "forever." What idea are you brewing in that fertile
imagination of yours?

Are you having any connectivity problems and is your Network Map showing the
correct info?
 
I am still putting stuff back so I am finding things one by one.
Very weird and stupid things LOL
I have new wallpaper
I know its stupid but I have choices I did not have before.
And believe me I looked!
I had the classic Start menu set before. Now I am trying Vista style.
Wondering if anything I changed such as the way we access start /run changes
the way command lines are processed.
Network is connecting to router internet and mail but not other pc's here at
home yet.
 
Ok Network says its in and
I think I networked my printer that I have been pulling my hair out over for
days!
Very weird.

Crap I need to install my sig.
 
WinKey+R will bring up the Start/Run box in case you've not been able to
figure out how to "pin" it to the Start menu. Although it should not and
does not AFAIK, change the way anything Runs.
 
Yeah, there are some brave souls testing out the changes to stationery. I
haven't had much time for that yet. I've been down in the bits and pieces
of the database and stuff.

cheers,

steve
 
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