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| Thread ID: 64107 | 2005-12-03 07:58:00 | Xtra New Groups ( Alt Binaries) | Marshman (7857) | PC World Chat |
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| 409906 | 2005-12-03 07:58:00 | Xtra seem to have deleted all the "Alt Bin erotica" news groups. I have talked to the xtra help line and everyone I have talked to, including the supervisors did not know what a News Group was. They were unable to give me any email contact to anyone in control of this strange thing I was talking about...once again not one person new what I was talking about. Can anyone offer advise, cheers Phil. | Marshman (7857) | ||
| 409907 | 2005-12-03 08:08:00 | Many people don't know about Usenet newsgroups these days. One of the big problems is that it can cost ISPs alot of money in network traffic just for a few people (e.g. is was suggested there are only 20 Orcon users who use their news server). maybe try emailing usenet@xtra or admin@xtra ISPs particulary like to cut out binary newsgroups, in this case it might be the upstream provider for xtra. Also found in a post to xtra.questions: Reply from Xtra. Thank you for contacting the Team @ Xtra! We have been investigating the issue relating to binaries or file attachments as part of newsgroup posts not being received. Our technical team has discovered that our upstream provider for newsgroups has removed their binaries feeds. It has been decided that we will not be sourcing an alternative provider to supply us with the newsgroups. We anticipate that we will be removing the binaries newsgroups from our server in the near future because of this. If you have any further questions regarding this, please contact our Complex Technical Support team on 0800 116 110 option 2 then 3. |
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| 409908 | 2005-12-03 08:16:00 | Gibler, thanks for that info, much appreciated I will follow it up on Monday, Cheers Phil. | Marshman (7857) | ||
| 409909 | 2005-12-03 19:41:00 | I think that orcon uses a free 3rd party provider for their news groups. I made the mistake of posting on a newsgroup one day & it added some message about the free newsgroup provider. Unfortionately, I used my real email address & now I get a heap of spam. | Greven (91) | ||
| 409910 | 2005-12-03 21:45:00 | I think that orcon uses a free 3rd party provider for their news groups. I made the mistake of posting on a newsgroup one day & it added some message about the free newsgroup provider. Unfortionately, I used my real email address & now I get a heap of spam. No they don't. The issue with the attached signature has been fixed for months. And never use your real email address in Usenet ........ |
gibler (49) | ||
| 409911 | 2005-12-03 23:36:00 | Can anyone offer advise, cheers Phil.Get a girlfriend/boyfriend, or get porn from another source. :rolleyes: | ninja (1671) | ||
| 409912 | 2005-12-03 23:40:00 | try connecting to the news servers of other ISPs - one of them might have been kind enough to allow customers of other ISPs to use their usenet connection. | Greven (91) | ||
| 409913 | 2005-12-03 23:42:00 | try connecting to the news servers of other ISPs - one of them might have been kind enough to allow customers of other ISPs to use their usenet connection.I highly doubt it. They should be secured down for spam reasons/cost reasons etc. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 409914 | 2005-12-04 00:28:00 | Try Google Groups. They probably have the lot, though alt groups like binaries.erotica might not be there. Do you just read the articles? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 409915 | 2005-12-04 01:37:00 | :lol: | Murray P (44) | ||
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