Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!f209.ai020.freebit.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Free Newsgroup Server Anywhere?: My Yahoo BB doesnt have one......baaaaah! Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:32:17 +0900 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <515ab8e4.0308121727.c55551d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: f209.ai020.freebit.ne.jp (220.215.20.209) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1060853535 241302 220.215.20.209 (16 [51151]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:4417 On 12 Aug 2003 18:27:55 -0700, tokyoelbow@totalise.co.uk (Elbow) belched the alphabet and kept on going with: >Well I asked Yahoo BB when they were getting a NewsGroup and they said >prob soon, that was last year and unless Im stupid they still dont >have one right? > >Im fed up with using google to post messages. >I cant seem to find a free newsgroup that allows me to post via my >Outlook Express. >I tried these >news.uni-stuttgart.de >test.news.rcn.net >But when I try to post I get this: > >Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Re: Tombraider >2 was good.............', Account: 'news.uni-stuttgart.de', Server: >'news.uni-stuttgart.de', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '440 Posting >not allowed', Port: XXX, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 440, Error >Number: 0x800CCCA9 > >It says no posting allowed but it says posting allowed on the website. >http://www.newsservers.net/free_news_servers/ > >please help Several people here use the very reliable free server from the University of Wienerschnitzel: http://news.individual.net/ -- Michael Cash "There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file." Prof. Ernest T. Bass Mount Pilot College http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/