On 18 Apr 2023, Nomen Nescio <
nob...@dizum.com> posted some
news:8f6454aae49052ef...@dizum.com:
> Just finished are rather exhaustive look at so-called free and
> trial usenet servers. Will report back if I get any good answers
> to:
>
> Solani makes an account for me, but when my socksified client
> says "getting all groups" (or similar there servers time me out,
> regardless of the ip. I am connecting but they don't transfer
> the group data. Not a firewall issue. Any bright boy tell me why
> and a workaround?
Some news servers are blocking tor now. Symptom appears to be a connect
with eventual connection refused. Only way around that is use a socks
proxy or VPN.