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newsgroup reader os x

  • 20-12-2006 12:48am
    #1
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,960 ✭✭✭


    driven by nostalgia ... i'm curious about accessing newsgroups on my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4.8

    my ISP is u.tv, and they claim to have a news server "news.utvinternet.com"

    i can ping this address ... but none of the various freeware clients i've tried can connect to this server to draw down supported groups

    i've also tried connecting directly to a group i'm sure is supported by u.tv ... [url]news://news4.euro.net[/url] ... which gives me a generic "could not connect to news server ... unable to connect to news://news4.euro.net"

    i'm surely missing something basic ... any ideas / advice / wisdom ?


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  • #2
    pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭pa


    Make sure port 119 is not being blocked by OS X's firewall. Also check the same for any routers between your computer and your net connection.


  • #3
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,960 ✭✭✭trout


    i'm pretty sure the port is open, as i get a telnet connection to the u.tv newsserver over port 119


    Escape character is '^]'.
    200 ni-news.utvinternet.com DNEWS Version 5.7b1,, S0, posting OK

    that makes me suspect either the news client(s) or my config of those clients

    any thoughts ? any one out there with a known good client/config ?


  • #4
    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    Maybe UTV's usenet server is down? Only reason I can think of that it wouldn't connect.


  • #5
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,960 ✭✭✭trout


    Urban Weigl wrote:
    Maybe UTV's usenet server is down? Only reason I can think of that it wouldn't connect.

    you're probably right ... i connected just now ... discovered that the u.tv server carries over 1570 groups ... of which 2 are u.tv specific (chat and support) and the other 1568 are microsoft public access groups! i think it was more useful to me when it was down ... at least then i didn't have my hopes up

    i can understand why they won't carry say alt.binaries.pictures.hotdonkeys* ... but i was kinda hoping to get at the comp.sys.emulators groups ... i guess all the news groups have been superceded by community sites like boards ;)

    * this may not be a real news group ... but you know what i mean


  • #6
    Peteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Peteer


    For Reader I use Mac Soup
    http://home.snafu.de/stk/macsoup/
    For a news server I use:
    http://news.individual.net/index.html
    Worth a tenner a year.

    Cheers,
    Peter


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  • #7
    Peteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Peteer


    And for mac related matters:
    uk.comp.sys.mac


  • #8
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,960 ✭✭✭trout


    nice one ... mac soup it is!

    didn't think of commercial newsservers ... :rolleyes:


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