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to: TERRY JOYCE
from: STEVE LOCKWOOD
date: 1997-12-05 20:25:00
subject: newsgroups

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 G'day Terry
 On Tue Dec 02, 1997 Terry Joyce wrote in a message to Steve Lockwood:
 SL> It seems I am having problems getting any listings of newsgroups and
 SL> The problem is in the setup (I expect) when setting up an account I
 SL> get asked for a server name and have no idea what I am supposed to put
 SL> there. I have tried all sorts of different odd server names, but as a
 SL> response I am then only told Outlook was not able to connect to it. 
 SL> Can any help me with what server name I should be putting to be able
 SL> to collect newsgroups or point me in the direction where I could find
 SL> out :-( 
 TJ>          Netnews.msn.com is my server.
 TJ>          Netnews.worldnet.att.net is another.
 TJ>                     Hope that helps
 TJ>                     Terry Joyce
Thanks for the advice Terry but three days ago I finally found the address to 
One Net's home page and the info was right there :-)
news.one.net.au
I am sure I had tried it before and did not work, but this time around I did 
try it and bingo I'm in ;-)
Thanks anyway
      Takin' it easy
    --
   slockwood@one.net.au
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