Model Forum / General / Models / July 2006

Hi all

I have tried several times in the past to have a look at this newsgroup
and while the mirror copies on the web provide the content I failed
every time I tried to subscribe direct.

As it turns out I have never had to set up the 'bt news' path since none
of the other newsgroups that I have used for YEARS are actually on the
'public' news network ;)

I have just spent a long couple of hours going through various paths to
find out WHY I was getting 'newsgroup does not exist on xxx' and trying
to find the address of the uk usenet server which of cause was the wrong
question to be asking ;)

I'm using Claranet for hosting and had been using Globalnet for access,
but of cause BT now provides the broadband since they had the strangle
hold on installation a few years ago. ( I'm still having problems where
customers have poor broadband access - until they 'change' to BT direct
;) - the ISP's are dealing with that one :) )

So my general NEWS setup was still looking at the Claranet and Globalnet
proxies, but was not being used. I had to change that to look at the BT
proxy and here I am - finally.

I prefer the eMail based lists since management/searching is easier but
there has been some interesting activity here which I would like to join
in with :)