[OT?]Reading this group impossible with my ISP, what solution?

My ISP (Zonnet->Versatel->Tele2) some time ago and without warning
dumped alt.internet.wireless from their server. I cannot get this in my
Outlook Express newsgroups any more through them. Any suggestions how I
can restore the group this way? I don't want to follow through a
browser window, prefer OE (duh... yeah I know).

Any other Zonnet/Versatel/Tele2 clients with this problem? What
solution did you use?

Paul, Zoetermeer

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> My ISP (Zonnet->Versatel->Tele2) some time ago and without warning
> dumped alt.internet.wireless from their server. I cannot get this
> in my Outlook Express newsgroups any more through them. Any
> suggestions how I can restore the group this way?

Contact your ISP and tell them to restore the newsgroup.

If that doesn't work, and you don't want to use Google, you'll have
to start using another news provider.

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Paul wrote:
> My ISP (Zonnet->Versatel->Tele2) some time ago and without warning
> dumped alt.internet.wireless from their server. I cannot get this in my
> Outlook Express newsgroups any more through them. Any suggestions how I
> can restore the group this way?

If you sign up for Google Groups you can get a digest email or email
for every message, posted, then set up a filter in Outlook Express to
put them in a separate folder. It's not the same but it might work.


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"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:1167940107.462060.165160
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> My ISP (Zonnet->Versatel->Tele2) some time ago and without warning
> dumped alt.internet.wireless from their server. I cannot get this in my
> Outlook Express newsgroups any more through them. Any suggestions how I
> can restore the group this way? I don't want to follow through a
> browser window, prefer OE (duh... yeah I know).
>
> Any other Zonnet/Versatel/Tele2 clients with this problem? What
> solution did you use?
>
> Paul, Zoetermeer
>

I am absolutely unfamiliar with using OE as a newsreader, but I'm sure it
not nearly as configurable as XNews ? Does it support multiple servers ?

My ISP outsources NNTP and due to that, I've only got a 5 gig/month quota.
I use that up in the binary groups pretty quickly, usually just on one or
two uses after it resets.

Anyway, to read text groups, I d/l headers/articles from a free server,
news.readfreenews.net which only carries text groups. When I post, I post
thru one or two other free servers that you can post though. I found that
usenet.com offers a free posting only server, post.usenet.com, and there's
another one I found.

So, D/L from one free server and post thru another is an option. If you can
do that with OE I don't know.

"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>My ISP (Zonnet->Versatel->Tele2) some time ago and without warning
>dumped alt.internet.wireless from their server. I cannot get this in my
>Outlook Express newsgroups any more through them. Any suggestions how I
>can restore the group this way? I don't want to follow through a
>browser window, prefer OE (duh... yeah I know).
>
>Any other Zonnet/Versatel/Tele2 clients with this problem? What
>solution did you use?

Zonnet outsources their usenet news to Versatel:
ping news.zonnet.nl
Pinging news.versatel.nl [82.197.196.35] with 32 bytes of data:
I can't read Dutch so I can't find if they have an online web based
news reader. If the newsgroup was really dropped, you'll probably
need to contact Versatel.nl which would have some mechanism for adding
or fixing newsgroup lists. Meanwhile Google groups or some other web
based reader should work.

However, that's NOT your problem. The problem is that you're using
Outlook Depress for Usenet news, which is not a good idea. You can
probably get alt.internet.wireless back into the distribution list by
simply downloading (not refreshing) the entire list of usenet groups.
It might take a while to download all 90,000+ groups, but you will end
up with a clean list that should include alt.internet.wireless.

If you want a newsreader that works, I suggest Forte Agent (US$35).

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Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> However, that's NOT your problem. The problem is that you're using
> Outlook Depress for Usenet news, which is not a good idea. You can
> probably get alt.internet.wireless back into the distribution list by
> simply downloading (not refreshing) the entire list of usenet groups.
> It might take a while to download all 90,000+ groups, but you will end
> up with a clean list that should include alt.internet.wireless.
>
> If you want a newsreader that works, I suggest Forte Agent (US$35).
>

Or as I mentioned, XNews (US$0)... xnews.newsguy.com