TalkTalk News Server

I have been toying with the idea of halving my phone/broadband bill by going
to TalkTalk - I know, but I am a low user and have a number of friends who
have gone to them only one of whom had problems, and that was personally
sorted out by Charles Dunstone.

Anyway, the only thing I was concerned about was that I understood they did
not have usenet access and I have been looking at freebie news servers
(Motzarella is favourite at the moment).

The other day, however, I opened a command prompt and typed in Ping
news.talktalk.net and was surprised firstly to see it actually ping
news.opaltelecom.net on 62.24.224.34 and secondly to get a reply.

Today I pinged but the request timed out. Can anyone throw any light on
this please. Do TalkTalk now have a news server (albeit belonging to
Opaltelecom) and do they now provide a usenet facility?
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)

Keith Willcocks wrote:
> Today I pinged but the request timed out. Can anyone throw any light on
> this please. Do TalkTalk now have a news server (albeit belonging to
> Opaltelecom) and do they now provide a usenet facility?

As a side-point, TalkTalk's broadband product is actually Opal Telecoms
network - i.e. they are the same company.

On 05 Jan 2008, Keith Willcocks wrote

> I have been toying with the idea of halving my phone/broadband
> bill by going to TalkTalk - I know, but I am a low user and have
> a number of friends who have gone to them only one of whom had
> problems, and that was personally sorted out by Charles
> Dunstone.
>
> Anyway, the only thing I was concerned about was that I
> understood they did not have usenet access and I have been
> looking at freebie news servers (Motzarella is favourite at the
> moment).

Can't help with your query, but FWIW I've been using albasani.net as
a free (text) news server for many months now; it seems pretty
good.


--
Cheers,
Harvey

"HVS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 05 Jan 2008, Keith Willcocks wrote
>

> Can't help with your query, but FWIW I've been using albasani.net as
> a free (text) news server for many months now; it seems pretty
> good.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Harvey

same here, never known it go down, i use it in preference to my isp's server

In uk.telecom.broadband, on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:53:12, tony h wrote:

>
>"HVS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
>> On 05 Jan 2008, Keith Willcocks wrote
>>
>
>> Can't help with your query, but FWIW I've been using albasani.net as
>> a free (text) news server for many months now; it seems pretty
>> good.
>
>same here, never known it go down, i use it in preference to my isp's server

It looks very sensible. What is retention like there? I didn't spot
that specified (or stated as unspecified) on the site.

Their T&Cs look pretty spot-on.

--
Jim Crowther

"Jim Crowther" <Don'(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In uk.telecom.broadband, on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:53:12, tony h wrote:
>
>>
>>"HVS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>>> On 05 Jan 2008, Keith Willcocks wrote
>>>
>>
>>> Can't help with your query, but FWIW I've been using albasani.net as
>>> a free (text) news server for many months now; it seems pretty
>>> good.
>>
>>same here, never known it go down, i use it in preference to my isp's
>>server
>
> It looks very sensible. What is retention like there? I didn't spot that
> specified (or stated as unspecified) on the site.
>
> Their T&Cs look pretty spot-on.
>
> --
> Jim Crowther

no idea, sorry

In uk.telecom.broadband, on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:16:30, tony h wrote:

>
>"Jim Crowther" <Don'(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news2$(E-Mail Removed). invalid...

>>
>> --
>> Jim Crowther
>
>no idea, sorry

I hope you are as sorry for quoting sigs. Please don't.

--
Jim Crowther

Keith Willcocks wrote:
> I have been toying with the idea of halving my phone/broadband bill
> by going to TalkTalk - I know, but I am a low user and have a number
> of friends who have gone to them only one of whom had problems, and
> that was personally sorted out by Charles Dunstone.
>
> Anyway, the only thing I was concerned about was that I understood
> they did not have usenet access and I have been looking at freebie
> news servers (Motzarella is favourite at the moment).
>
> The other day, however, I opened a command prompt and typed in Ping
> news.talktalk.net and was surprised firstly to see it actually ping
> news.opaltelecom.net on 62.24.224.34 and secondly to get a reply.
>
> Today I pinged but the request timed out. Can anyone throw any
> light on this please. Do TalkTalk now have a news server (albeit
> belonging to Opaltelecom) and do they now provide a usenet facility?


I use Motzarella and albasani no problems.

TalkTalk used to have a news-server but it kept falling over, the last time
it fell over a couple of years back or so, they decided they couldn't be
bothered to sort it out.

Hope you have a better time with TalkTalk than I did, worst 2.5 months ever,
glad I managed to escape without charge.

Opal is TalkTalk, CPW bought Opal and then provided TalkTalk broadband.

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On 05 Jan 2008, Jim Crowther wrote

> In uk.telecom.broadband, on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:53:12, tony h
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "HVS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> On 05 Jan 2008, Keith Willcocks wrote
>>>
>>
>>> Can't help with your query, but FWIW I've been using
>>> albasani.net as a free (text) news server for many months now;
>>> it seems pretty good.
>>
>> same here, never known it go down, i use it in preference to my
>> isp's server
>
> It looks very sensible. What is retention like there? I didn't
> spot that specified (or stated as unspecified) on the site.

Not sure, but doing a quick check on a couple of busy groups I read,
the oldest retrievables are September/October.

So -- guessing -- 3 months-ish?

--
Cheers,
Harvey

"Jim Crowther" <Don'(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In uk.telecom.broadband, on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:16:30, tony h wrote:
>
>>
>>"Jim Crowther" <Don'(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news2$(E-Mail Removed) .invalid...
>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Crowther
>>
>>no idea, sorry
>
> I hope you are as sorry for quoting sigs. Please don't.
>
> --
> Jim Crowther

extremely, soon as i've finished typing this i'm gonna cut off my hands.
(maybe i missed a bit of ng etiquette?)

ps. just realised, if i cut off one hand i'll have nothing to hold the axe
to do the other, so i'll probably not bother it it's all the same....


My new temporary sig, feel free to copy
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