Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/10/05 16:51

Safalra wrote:
> Els wrote:
>
>>Safalra wrote:
>>
>>>Arne wrote:
>>>
<snip>
> The page is five years old (and I can't reach it through a BT site
> search), but a quick test with Outlook Express shows
> news.btinternet.com still works. Now I just need a decent newsreader
> for Windows - a quick Google search suggests XNews
> (http://xnews.newsguy.com/), but that site doesn't seem to have been
> updated recently (the latest news is dated '3-Feb-2003'). Still, it's
> not like Usenet has suddenly changed since 2003, so I'll give it a go.
>
> Hopefully then this will be my last ever post from Google Groups.
>
Many ISP's have the service at news.[ISP NAME'], like mine
news.centralva.net so if you set in IE, I use Mozilla, but are similar
in setup, a new account> news >server: news.yourISP.com port: 119 and
try it with your ISP username and password. You may be lucky and it
might work, worth a try...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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