Has Pipex stopped newsgroup access?

Has Pipex stopped newsgroup access?
Or is their nntp server just down?
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Chris

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:19:32 +0100, Chris wrote:

> Has Pipex stopped newsgroup access?
> Or is their nntp server just down?

Used to be no access just in the evenings. If it's just binary that you
want, try Abasani or eternal-september; with the latter, worth using the
443 option as it's SSL and keeps going.
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Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

PeterC wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:19:32 +0100, Chris wrote:
>
>> Has Pipex stopped newsgroup access?
>> Or is their nntp server just down?
>
> Used to be no access just in the evenings. If it's just binary

ITYM 'text' :-)

that you
> want, try Abasani or eternal-september; with the latter, worth using the
> 443 option as it's SSL and keeps going.

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:44:40 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> PeterC wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:19:32 +0100, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> Has Pipex stopped newsgroup access?
>>> Or is their nntp server just down?
>>
>> Used to be no access just in the evenings. If it's just binary
>
> ITYM 'text' :-)
>
> that you
>> want, try Abasani or eternal-september; with the latter, worth using the
>> 443 option as it's SSL and keeps going.

Yup, ta!
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Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:03:02 +0100, Peter
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>PS privacy.net is no longer publicising anything to encourage use of
> it as a spam trap.

Yes but... the MX record for privacy.net is:

> privacy.net. 3600 IN MX 100 mail.privacy.net.

and the IP address of mail.privacy.net is:

> mail.privacy.net. 3600 IN A 10.23.42.11

which is not routable. What a shame!
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Roger

In article <i3sg3c$10bs$(E-Mail Removed)>, Ant <(E-Mail Removed)>
writes
>My newsgroup access did disappear in June, but then returned a few days
>later. It was working fine until the same problem re-occurred at the
>beginning of this month ("481 Access Denied").

How is it now?
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Chris

On 26/08/2010 20:21, Richard Swaby wrote:
> 'Ant[_3_ Wrote:
>> ;193828']"Chris" nospam@[127.0.0.1] wrote in message
>> news:XP5jIzGkLtbMFwh5@[127.0.0.1]...-
>> In article i3sg3c$10bs$(E-Mail Removed), Ant (E-Mail Removed)
>> writes-
>> My newsgroup access did disappear in June, but then returned a few days
>> later. It was working fine until the same problem re-occurred at the
>> beginning of this month ("481 Access Denied").-
>>
>> How is it now?
>> --
>> Chris-
>>
>> Still no Pipex newsgroup access. Pipex kept telling me they were
>> working on
>> the problem (and kept closing my support requests). Eventually they
>> phoned
>> and said they weren't supporting their newsgroup server any more because
>>
>> they are planning to launch a "better" one "soon". When I asked for
>> details, they said they didn't have any and I should phone their sales
>> line
>> to ask about it. I haven't bothered, as I'm pretty sure if I did, they
>>
>> wouldn't know what I was talking about.
>>
>> In the meantime, I'm using freenews.netfront.net for text groups and
>> mulling
>> over alternatives for binaries. I'm also thinking about switching to a
>>
>> different ISP as I'm getting increasingly concerned about the dwindling
>>
>> support for Pipex customers now they've been taken over by
>> TalkTalk/Opal/whoever it is this week.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: (E-Mail Removed) ---
> I had exactly the same problems. Pipex support don't know what's going
> on. Nobody at tech support or customer services had an inkling of what a
> news server was let alone how to explain why USENET access had been
> removed. What makes it worse is that their MyPipex connection settings
> page still lists the newsgroup settings as if nothing has happened.
> After being given the run-around I finally got through to Opal tech
> support who told me that the contract between Pipex and Giganews was
> terminated on July 31st. So that's the end of Pipex as far as I am
> concerned. Their support has become a joke.
> I see it as a breach of contract and managed to get them to agree to
> waive the early contract closure fee, so now I'm looking around for a
> new ISP with USENET access. Can anyone recommend Demon or Virgin?
>
>
>
>
Plusnet still has a working (text-only) news server and uses Giganews.

George

Chris wrote:
> Has Pipex stopped newsgroup access?
> Or is their nntp server just down?

Pipex are now a crap ISP unlike ten or so years ago. Just move to a good
ISP.

In any event you can get inexpensive or even free newsgroup access from
various specialists who do the job better.

Graham

On 26/08/10 20:21, Richard Swaby wrote:

> so now I'm looking around for a
> new ISP with USENET access. Can anyone recommend Demon or Virgin?

Demon doesn't do usenet with their home products.

I was using giganews, but it pissed me off that I was charged amost as
much for processing the monthly payment as I was for the base level text
only subscription.

Now I'm using gradwell for news, but I'm not impressed with that either.

Tempted to set inn up and peer off as many free text onlys as I can find.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

On Saturday 28 August 2010 08:37, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
Denis McMahon painted this mural:

> On 26/08/10 20:21, Richard Swaby wrote:
>
>> so now I'm looking around for a
>> new ISP with USENET access. Can anyone recommend Demon or Virgin?
>
> Demon doesn't do usenet with their home products.

Demon do do it on their Home Office product, the one that provides a
static IP address and web space. They don't provide it on their Home
product[0], which has a dynamic IP and no web space.

<snip>

> Tempted to set inn up and peer off as many free text onlys as I can find.

Maybe you could try Leafnode. It does a very good job here with the 5
different news servers I use.



[0] <http://knowledgebase.demon.net/article/demon-broadband-faq.html#diff>

Regards,
David Bolt

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