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G'day Cyrus
On Thu Dec 04, 1997 Cyrus Afzali wrote in a message to Steve Lockwood:
SL>Can any help me with what server name I should be putting to be able to
CA> collect
SL>newsgroups or point me in the direction where I could find out :-(
CA> There's absolutely no way for any of us to answer that question
CA> based on the information you provided. First of all, every ISP or
CA> USENET provider has a different name for its server. That's the
CA> name that you need to put in the server ID box of your news reader.
CA> You should your ISP's tech support or USENET admin. what that
CA> server is.
CA> If you're connecting to your own ISP's news server, chances are you
CA> don't have to have a user name and password, but if you're on a pay
CA> news feed, you probably were assigned one. You'll need to put that
CA> in too and tell the news reader to use it when it attempts to log
CA> in.
Thankyou, problem resolved :-) I have finally found the ISP's home page and
all the details required are there.
Though is was a shame they were not in the setup instructions originaly
supplied by the ISP, also not supplied was the home page :-(
Takin' it easy
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