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Re: Unable to connect via NNTP
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Date: 
Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:00:41 GMT
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HI:


For the past 3 days or so I've been unable to get my newsreader (Outlook
Express) to connect to the LUGNET News server. (I"m posting this via the we
interface). Has anything changed? ANyone else having trouble?


I as well, have been having a hard time reading Lugnet newsgroups.  From
my end nothing else has changed.  I can connect to other news servers.
I like others have assumed that it was a "lugnet" issue and it would
clear itself up.  But it has been over a week, and I have not even seen
a reply to this post from the powers that be.

As a point on interest, I browser the groups with Netscape 4.72 news
reader.  with a win 98 machine.   I have had no problem using the web
interface but I would vastly prefer to use my reader.

Dan, could you shed some light on this?


Chris
Pretend this says something funny



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  Re: Unable to connect via NNTP
 
(...) FWIW, I too am having problems connecting to the NNTP server. It does connect, eventually, but takes about a minute or two. My guess is that it's trying to do an auth request to my machine, but my firewall is blocking the request, causing the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Unable to connect via NNTP
 
For the past 3 days or so I've been unable to get my newsreader (Outlook Express) to connect to the LUGNET News server. (I"m posting this via the we interface). Has anything changed? ANyone else having trouble? Kevin (23 years ago, 24-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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