BT News Servers

I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

In message <(E-Mail Removed) >, JoHn
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
>their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
>news server?
>
>Thanks very much.

news.btopenworld.com

--
Phil Morris

JoHn wrote:
> I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
> their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
> news server?
>
> Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:

> JoHn wrote:
> > I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
> > their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
> > news server?
> >
> > Thanks very much.
>
> BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.
>
>
Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.

Steve

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(E-Mail Removed) (Steve) wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, bat.guano@talk21dotcom
>(Bat Guano) wrote:
>
>> JoHn wrote:
>> > I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
>> > their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
>> > news server?
>> >
>> > Thanks very much.
>>
>> BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.
>>
>>
>Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
>is not advertised and certainly not supported.
>
>Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com
>
>also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3
>
>Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
>25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.

On one of the ADSL forums a BT employee said that the BT Broadband
customers are in the BT address pool but they regularly add the BTB
addresses to the blocklists for the BTO servers. Not sure if this is
true as I haven't heard of anybody unable to use BTO's mail servers.

I use the BTO mail servers for outgoing mail but subscribe to Easynews
because they are reliable and have *huge* retention.

Gareth

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) (Gareth A.) wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
> (E-Mail Removed) (Steve) wrote:
>
> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, bat.guano@talk21dotcom
> >(Bat Guano) wrote:
> >
> >> JoHn wrote:
> >> > I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
> >> > their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the
> > > BT
> >> > news server?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks very much.
> >>
> >> BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.
> >>
> >>
> >Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though
> it >is not advertised and certainly not supported.
> >
> >Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com
> >
> >also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3
> >
> >Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
> >25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.
>
> On one of the ADSL forums a BT employee said that the BT Broadband
> customers are in the BT address pool but they regularly add the BTB
> addresses to the blocklists for the BTO servers. Not sure if this is
> true as I haven't heard of anybody unable to use BTO's mail servers.
>
> I use the BTO mail servers for outgoing mail but subscribe to Easynews
> because they are reliable and have *huge* retention.
>
> Gareth
>
>
>
>
No problems to speak of here, though I have found that the dynamic nature
of the BTO/BTB network means that IP address are often blocked en masse
from sending mail to certain domains. AOL being the obvious one. I
normally tell the recipient by sending via hotmail of the error of their
ways, and that it will be costing them business !

I find that retention is not the problem with news servers, afterall,
you're on 24/7 why not download news every hour ? I find that
/completion/ is the biggest problem, missing posts leading to broken
threading, and incomplete multi-part binaries.


Steve

Steve wrote:

> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, bat.guano@talk21dotcom
> (Bat Guano) wrote:
>
>
>>JoHn wrote:
>>
>>>I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
>>>their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
>>>news server?
>>>
>>>Thanks very much.
>>
>>BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.
>>
>>
>
> Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
> is not advertised and certainly not supported.
>
> Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com
>
> also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3
>
> Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
> 25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.
>

"Allowing access" is different to "providing servers"

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
> > In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> > bat.guano@talk21dotcom (Bat Guano) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>JoHn wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
> >>>their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
> >>>news server?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks very much.
> >>
> >>BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though
> > it is not advertised and certainly not supported.
> >
> > Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com
> >
> > also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3
> >
> > Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
> > 25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.
> >
>
> "Allowing access" is different to "providing servers"
>
>
CaRP - Ad nauseum :-/

- Steve

"Bat Guano" <bat.guano@talk21dotcom> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Steve wrote:
>
> > In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, bat.guano@talk21dotcom
> > (Bat Guano) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>JoHn wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
> >>>their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
> >>>news server?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks very much.
> >>
> >>BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
> > is not advertised and certainly not supported.
> >
> > Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com
> >
> > also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3
> >
> > Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
> > 25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.
> >
>
> "Allowing access" is different to "providing servers"
>

Just admit you were wrong rather than get pedantic to make a point.

Phil Morris wrote:
>
> Just admit you were wrong rather than get pedantic to make a point.
>

Allowing access *is* different to providing servers.