TalkTalk News Server
Keith Willcocks
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?
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Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
Paul Cupis
> 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.
HVS
> 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.
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Cheers,
Harvey
tony h
"HVS" <use...@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Xns9A1CD83C...@news.albasani.net...
> 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
Jim Crowther
>
>"HVS" <use...@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:Xns9A1CD83C...@news.albasani.net...
>> 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.
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Jim Crowther
tony h
"Jim Crowther" <Don't_bo...@blackhole.do-not-spam.me.uk> wrote in message
news:o2$3kOT7Y...@nospam.at.my.choice.of.UID.invalid...
no idea, sorry
Jim Crowther
>
>"Jim Crowther" <Don't_bo...@blackhole.do-not-spam.me.uk> wrote in message
>news:o2$3kOT7Y...@nospam.at.my.choice.of.UID.invalid...
>>
>> --
>> Jim Crowther
>
>no idea, sorry
I hope you are as sorry for quoting sigs. Please don't.
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Jim Crowther
{{{{{Welcome}}}}}
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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HVS
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?
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Cheers,
Harvey
tony h
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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Two Hand Tony
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Rich
<bhx_spam@trapped__hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>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?
>
If you a lite user then why not look into getting an account with
http://www.news.astraweb.com/plans.html
I registered a $10.00 (£5.00) account about 12 months ago for purely
text (no binaries) - I've not even used 5% of the 25 Gig allowance.
Rich
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Jim Crowther
>Jim Crowther wrote:
>> In uk.telecom.broadband, on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:16:30, tony h wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Jim Crowther" <Don't_bo...@blackhole.do-not-spam.me.uk> wrote in
>>>message
>>> news:o2$3kOT7Y...@nospam.at.my.choice.of.UID.invalid...
>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Jim Crowther
>>>
>>> no idea, sorry
>> I hope you are as sorry for quoting sigs. Please don't.
>>
>Is it possible to get Outlook Express to work properly?
OEquotefix makes it behave. :)
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
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Jim Crowther
tony h
>>Is it possible to get Outlook Express to work properly?
>
> OEquotefix makes it behave. :)
>
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
>
> --
pretty good link, thanks.
Keith Willcocks
"Keith Willcocks" <bucc...@invalidaddress.inv> wrote in message
news:zcqdnT5bUsPXTOLa...@bt.com...
Thanks for the responses. The fact that they had it but haven't fixed it
explains why I get the occasional Ping response. I shall certainly look
at Albasini. Thanks for the pointer.