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RtR

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Sep 20, 2001, 6:24:40 AM9/20/01

Saw a post here earlier in which someone stated that they knew the
newsserver address for @home. I have some of them, but I don't know how or
where people are finding them. I tend to post lots of binaries, and hit the
limit quite often (got a bit of a thing for anime). I've noticed that some
servers have better retention, and would like a larger list of servers, so
that I could find the best one.

If you know which one is best, have a list of servers, or know how I can
find servers, I'd love to hear about it.

Ryan the Red

jjd

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Sep 26, 2001, 3:12:24 AM9/26/01

heres the text file I got, sorry its so big, but as you can see, it is
reposted without modification, as requested by the author:

news.flash.net

USA:
news.rdc1.wa.home.com 11 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 14
news.rdc1.nj.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 12
news.rdc2.tx.home.com 08 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 13
news.rdc1.md.home.com 14 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 13
news.rdc1.sdca.home.com 10 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 16
news.rdc1.sfba.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME ping ok 15 short
news.rdc1.tn.home.com 11 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 13 short
news.rdc1.tx.home.com 05 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 14 --
news.rdc2.occa.home.com 10 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 17 --
news.rdc1.va.home.com 12 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 15 short
news.rdc1.az.home.com 09 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK 15 short
news.rdc1.ny.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME PINGS 12 short
news.rdc1.ct.home.com 12 NODES FROM ME PINGS short
news.rdc1.fl.home.com 10 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK very
short
news.rdc1.pa.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME good
news.rdc1.mi.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK --
news.rdc1.mn.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK no
dns
news.rdc1.ne.home.com 10 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK no
dns
news.rdc1.il.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK --
lh2.rdc1.mi.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK --
news.kenner1.la.home.com 13 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK --
news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 12 NODES FROM ME PINGS very
short
news.escnd1.sdca.home.com 10 NODES FROM ME PINGS OK good

In article <MPG.1342ea8a13a65085989681@news>, I_...@home.now.com
says...
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> I've been out of the country for 7 months, and I want to start getting
> stuff again.
>
> If it helps, Wingnut compiled it like a year ago, or something to that
> extent.
>
*Please Note: This will work only for the people that use @Home*

-- WingNut's @Home Newserver Tips --
- September 1999 -

I have noticed that the many of the repost requests originate
from people that use the @Home cable modem service.
This is mostly due to @Home's terrible message retention
times. (Posts will expire off some servers in less than 12 hours)

I am posting this message in an attempt to help those that use
@Home find the missing parts of a post without having to flood the
group with more repost requests. I am NOT saying that this method
will find every single missing post, but you should have a very
good success rate. Some may say, "why go to all this trouble?
I only need ONE part". First of all: it's easy change news servers.
Second: if you ask for a repost, you "May or May Not" get it.
Third: By changing servers, you'll be able to download it faster
than you would have gotten it if you'd had to wait on the repost.

@Home has newservers located in many different regions of the
United States and Canada. All of them transfer messages to one
another, and have the same group listings. The differences between
the news servers, is message retention. I've noticed that some of the

@Home news servers keep their messages on their server longer than
others, and some do a better job of getting complete posts.

As an @Home subscriber, you have access to any news server that
is ran by @Home. (They do not document this, nor do they encourage
it. So don't call @Home Tech support asking about it, they will
just tell you that it isn't possible)

To use one of the servers in the list, just change your default
newserver address in your newsreader. (Yours should be set to "news"
by default). If you are not familiar on doing this, search your
newsreaders help file for "adding a news server".
(Warning: If you use AGENT, it may reset all your message pointers)

I prefer Microplanet Gravity because it has "built in" support for
using multiple news servers. You can change from one server to the
next while still maintaining your message pointers.
( www.microplanet.com )

The format of the list has changed a little since the last list. I
now have
started including the IP address along with the news server name.
This is to help me to prevent adding dupes to the list, and to cut
down
on the list of duplicate names that are emailed to me.

WingNut's @Home news server list for September 1999

Name: news.rdc1.ab.home.com
IP: 24.64.2.57

Name: news.rdc1.az.home.com
IP: 24.1.240.71

Name: news.rdc1.ct.home.com
IP: 24.2.0.71

Name: news.rdc1.fl.home.com
IP: 24.2.3.71

Name: news.rdc1.il.home.com
IP: 24.2.1.71

Name: news.rdc1.md.home.com
IP: 24.2.2.71

Name: news.rdc1.mi.home.com
IP: 24.2.68.71

Name: news.rdc1.ne.home.com
IP: 24.2.4.71

Name: news.rdc1.nj.home.com
IP: 24.3.128.71

Name: news.rdc1.occa.home.com
IP: 24.2.8.71

Name: news.rdc1.on.home.com (Good message retention)
IP: 24.2.9.59

Name: news.rdc1.pa.home.com
IP: 24.2.5.71

Name: news.rdc1.sdca.home.com
IP: 24.0.3.73

Name: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com
IP: 24.1.64.32

Name: news.rdc1.tn.home.com
IP: 24.2.7.71

Name: news.rdc1.tx.home.com
IP: 24.4.0.71

Name: news1.rdc2.tx.home.com
IP: 24.4.48.91

Name: news.rdc1.va.home.com
IP: 24.2.32.71

Name: news.rdc1.wa.home.com
IP: 24.0.2.71

Name: news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com
IP: 24.64.2.57

Name: news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com
IP: 24.2.10.79

Name: news1.rdc1.on.home.com
IP: 24.2.9.60

Name: news1.rdc2.on.wave.home.com
IP: 24.9.0.17

Name: lh2.rdc2.mi.home.com
24.2.68.74

Feel free to repost this list in any news group that you would like.
I just ask for you to leave it intact and not remove anything, because
in order for this list to keep growing, I rely on users like yourself
to
submit any servers that are not found here. ( I've ran across several
people that have cut the server listings from this message and
reposted
it to the news group) People have no way to contact me if you
remove my email address. So please, leave it intact.

If you have any comments about this text file or if you happen to
locate any @Home news servers that are not included in this
list, feel free to email me at: wingnu...@hotmail.com
(Positive feedback will ensure that this list is updated frequently)

Would you like to have this list automatically emailed to you when
it's updated? Write me at the above address and somewhere in the
message write that you want to subscribe to "WingNut's Newserver List"
and the email address you want it delivered to.
(Email addresses will NOT be given out)

-WingNut-

Name: news1.rdc1.wa.home.com IP: 24.0.2.74
Name: news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com IP: 24.0.3.73
Name: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com IP: 24.1.64.32
Name: news1.rdc1.occa.home.com IP: 24.1.128.73
Name: news1.rdc1.az.home.com IP: 24.1.240.74
Name: news1.rdc1.ct.home.com IP: 24.2.0.74
Name: news1.rdc1.il.home.com IP: 24.2.1.74
Name: news1.rdc1.md.home.com IP: 24.2.2.74
Name: news1.rdc1.fl.home.com IP: 24.2.3.74
Name: news1.rdc1.ne.home.com IP: 24.2.4.74
Name: news1.rdc2.pa.home.com IP: 24.2.5.74
Name: news1.rdc1.pa.home.com IP: 24.2.5.75
Name: news1.rdc1.on.home.com IP: 24.2.9.60
Name: news2.rdc1.on.home.com IP: 24.2.9.59
Name: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com IP: 24.2.10.79
Name: news1.rdc1.mi.home.com IP: 24.2.68.78
Name: news1.rdc1.nj.home.com IP: 24.3.128.74
Name: news1.rdc1.tx.home.com IP: 24.4.0.74
Name: news1.rdc1.tn.home.com IP: 24.7.143.118
Name: news1.rdc2.on.home.com IP: 24.9.0.17
Name: news2.rdc2.on.home.com IP: 24.9.0.18
Name: news1.rdc2.tx.home.com IP: 24.14.77.5
Name: news1.rdc1.ab.home.com IP: 24.64.2.57

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