Re: Read Free News definitely belly up?
Whiskers
> Read Free News definitely belly up?
> No connection for ages.
>
> Derek
Seems to be working from here:
$ telnet news.readfreenews.net nntp
Trying 204.153.245.131...
Connected to news.readfreenews.net (204.153.245.131).
Escape character is '^]'.
201 yellow.readfreenews.net NNRP Service Ready - ne...@readfreenews.com (no
posting).
date
111 20080218123804
list overview.fmt
215 Order of fields in overview database.
Subject:
From:
Date:
Message-ID:
References:
Bytes:
Lines:
Xref:full
.
quit
205 Transferred 229 bytes in 0 articles, 0 groups. Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
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FACE
Re: Read Free News definitely belly up?, Whiskers
<catwh...@operamail.com>, wrote
I believe that you can connect in read-only mode. Newsgroups are not
being updated and there is no posting capability....AFAIK
Such has been the case since 10 something on the morning of Feb 2.
FACE
Whiskers
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:39:42 +0000, in alt.free.newsservers, in thread
> Re: Read Free News definitely belly up?, Whiskers
> <catwh...@operamail.com>, wrote
>
>>On 2008-02-18, Derek <derekandthe...@nailnet.com> wrote:
>>> Read Free News definitely belly up?
>>> No connection for ages.
>>>
>>> Derek
>>
>>Seems to be working from here:
>>
>>$ telnet news.readfreenews.net nntp
>>Trying 204.153.245.131...
>>Connected to news.readfreenews.net (204.153.245.131).
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>201 yellow.readfreenews.net NNRP Service Ready - ne...@readfreenews.com (no
>>posting).
[...]
> I believe that you can connect in read-only mode. Newsgroups are not
> being updated and there is no posting capability....AFAIK
>
> Such has been the case since 10 something on the morning of Feb 2.
>
> FACE
Readfreenews has been read-only for quite a long time; the clue is in the
name ;)) (There was an option to sign up for posting privileges at one
time but the operator withdrew that in the face of too much abuse. I
don't know if any of the posting accounts are still in use).
As for maintenance jobs such as adding new groups, a free service will
have to rely on the operator finding time and energy to attend to such
things after the paying jobs are taken care of.
FACE
>Readfreenews has been read-only for quite a long time; the clue is in the
>name ;))
Of course, which is why I was using it for posting ever since
individual.net went pay only. I last posted from RFN on the morning of
Feb. 2, 2008.
FACE
FACE
Read Free News definitely belly up?, klybear <kly...@gmail.com>, wrote
>On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:18:39 +0000, klybear wrote:
>
>> Still posts though!
>
>Just have to use one to read and another to post.
The end of your path:
indigo.octanews.net!authen.yellow.readfreenews.net.POSTED!not-for-mail
Yellow.readfreenews.net is refusing my connect attempts.
I signed up for posting several years ago and have used it daily for
years. When did you sign up?
What do you mean by "one to read, one to post"?
FACE
FACE
Read Free News definitely belly up?, My Name <myn...@here.com>, wrote
>I was using it to post until it died.
>
>> As for maintenance jobs such as adding new groups, a free service
>> will have to rely on the operator finding time and energy to
>> attend to such things after the paying jobs are taken care of.
>
>Exactly. I am sure it wqill be up and running one of these days.
>
I have had the same feeling. But note that the originating serve for
"kybear"s messages were yellow.readfreenews.net which is the server
which suddenly started refusing to allow me to sign in. Usually the
message is "access denied' and occasionally i get "server busy" -- but
those are winsock messages and pretty meaningless.
You can remove your userid/password and sign into it as read-only -- at
least i did that a week or so ago.
But I really wish that I knew what was going on there..............
FACE
MartinS
> My Name <myn...@here.com> wrote
>>Whiskers wrote:
>>> FACE <AFaceIn...@today.net> wrote:
>>>> Whiskers <catwh...@operamail.com> wrote
>>>>>> Read Free News definitely belly up?
>>>>>> No connection for ages.
>>>>>
Yes, but still nothing later than Feb. 2.
--
Martin S.
FACE
Read Free News definitely belly up?, klybear <kly...@gmail.com>, wrote
>On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:49:33 -0500, FACE wrote:
>
>> Yellow.readfreenews.net is refusing my connect attempts.
>>
>> I signed up for posting several years ago and have used it daily for
>> years. When did you sign up?
>
>Same - Years ago now!
>
>> What do you mean by "one to read, one to post"?
>
>As someone else said already, I can't read anything later than the
>beginning of February from this server, so I have to use readnews.com to
>read, but for some reason posting works fine. It propagates pretty quickly
>too, or at least it did that last time.
Ok. Thanks. From what you say, I will understand that he has the
internals running but has no external "get" updates going on -- BTW,
"get"ting the propagated newsgroup load is what i meant by "updating".
Anyway, i can't login to Yellow.RFN, where i did for the longest......
I can only assume that it will be back at some time, because from what
you report it has not been shut down.......
FACE
Wayne Garmil
>As someone else said already, I can't read anything later than the
>beginning of February from this server,
It sounds like the article numbering may have gotten reset on the news
server. This happens every so often. Try either sampling the last X
days (the best choice) or tell your software to download all available
articles again. The goal here is to (a) get the articles you have
missed so far, and (b) reset your news reader software so it is in
synch again with the news server for article numbers.
Hope this helps.
Wayne
--
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
chuckcar
> On 18 Feb 2008 21:29:35 GMT, klybear <kly...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>As someone else said already, I can't read anything later than the
>>beginning of February from this server,
>
> It sounds like the article numbering may have gotten reset on the news
> server. This happens every so often. Try either sampling the last X
> days (the best choice) or tell your software to download all available
> articles again. The goal here is to (a) get the articles you have
> missed so far, and (b) reset your news reader software so it is in
> synch again with the news server for article numbers.
>
Don't know if it matters, but I just did a retrieval of all headers from
allnews.readfreenews.net in a group and got nothing after feb. 2nd and
it couldn't retrieve the last article. I just got timeouts and retries.
--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )
FACE
thread Re: Read Free News definitely belly up?, chuckcar
<ch...@nil.car>, wrote
Ah yes, the old "last post' syndrome, caught in cyberspace half-in and
half-out of the array docking bay -- sigh.....forever in transit, yet
frozen in time..........
A bit of a flying dutchman of usenet........never quite putting ashore
but seen by observers to be ashore........terrible, that...........
somberly checking the bit bucket under the computer,,
FACE
Tony
FACE wrote:
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Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday
chuckcar
news:0bfmr3hllibqdn4vt...@4ax.com:
Cute, I like it. Actually, I was refering to not getting any response
on last, second last etc. However *now* I'm getting 400's on article
retrieval, so maybe it was a load matter.
Tony
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chuckcar wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:17:22 +0100, Derek
> <derekandthe...@nailnet.com> wrote:
>
> >Read Free News definitely belly up?
> >No connection for ages.
>
>
So you never donated anything?
Hmmm...
Its still not working so maybe Mike changed his plans for world domination?
:)
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by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and
sudden usurpations.... The means of defense against foreign danger historically
have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
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Stretch
>
> >
> > I signed up for posting several years ago and have used it daily for
> > years. When did you sign up?
>
>
> As someone else said already, I can't read anything later than the
> beginning of February from this server,
Presumably without authentication.
> so I have to use readnews.com to read,
> but for some reason posting works fine.
As this posts attribution line indicates. No such luck for me though.
How did you manage?