No Orange News Server

I've just changed over to using Orange as my ISP (Wanadoo, Freeserve
really?).

To my surprise they no longer provide access to Usenet via a news server.
Obviously I could access the groups via a web-based service, but I prefer
using Outlook Express as one can use the message rules to flag up topics of
interest.

I have also tried a couple of free news servers, but have so far no found a
way to send posts using them.

Can other Orange users tell me how they overcome this problem please.

Thanks,

V

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:33:33 UTC, "Victor Delta" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> I've just changed over to using Orange as my ISP (Wanadoo, Freeserve
> really?).
>
> To my surprise they no longer provide access to Usenet via a news server.
> Obviously I could access the groups via a web-based service, but I prefer
> using Outlook Express as one can use the message rules to flag up topics of
> interest.
>
> I have also tried a couple of free news servers, but have so far no found a
> way to send posts using them.
>
> Can other Orange users tell me how they overcome this problem please.

I'm not an Orange user, but I use a text-based news server (if that's
enough for you) that costs 10 euro a year; not excessive. very reliable
and complete.

http://news.individual.net


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Bob Eager wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:33:33 UTC, "Victor Delta" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> I've just changed over to using Orange as my ISP (Wanadoo, Freeserve
>> really?).
>>
>> To my surprise they no longer provide access to Usenet via a news
>> server. Obviously I could access the groups via a web-based service,
>> but I prefer using Outlook Express as one can use the message rules
>> to flag up topics of interest.
>>
>> I have also tried a couple of free news servers, but have so far no
>> found a way to send posts using them.
>>
>> Can other Orange users tell me how they overcome this problem please.
>
> I'm not an Orange user, but I use a text-based news server (if that's
> enough for you) that costs 10 euro a year; not excessive. very
> reliable
> and complete.
>
> http://news.individual.net

Agreed, but if 10 EUR (£6.78) per year is to much try
http://news.aioe.org/index.php a freeserver which I use as a backup.

Try this site...

http://news.datemas.de/

"Adrian A" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Bob Eager wrote:
>> http://news.individual.net
>
> Agreed, but if 10 EUR (£6.78) per year is to much try
> http://news.aioe.org/index.php a freeserver which I use as a backup.
>
Many thanks for these suggestions. I'm currently trying out
http://news.aioe.org/index.php and so far it seems very good, just what I
was looking for.

V

Victor Delta wrote:

>>
> Many thanks for these suggestions. I'm currently trying out
> http://news.aioe.org/index.php and so far it seems very good, just what I
> was looking for.

Yes, it does seem quite good. However I can only get it to intermittently
work through Port 80, which is a shame because I was hoping replace Google
Groups for one application of mine.

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"Victor Delta" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've just changed over to using Orange as my ISP (Wanadoo, Freeserve
> really?).
>
> To my surprise they no longer provide access to Usenet via a news server.
> Obviously I could access the groups via a web-based service, but I prefer
> using Outlook Express as one can use the message rules to flag up topics
> of
> interest.
>
> I have also tried a couple of free news servers, but have so far no found
> a
> way to send posts using them.
>
> Can other Orange users tell me how they overcome this problem please.
>
> Thanks,
>
> V
>
Try news.svr.pol.co.uk which is an old freeserve server but still seems to
work but doesn't have all the groups.

The other one I used to use was news1.greatnowhere.com for the goups the
other one didn't have.