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to: CYRUS AFZALI
from: STEVE LOCKWOOD
date: 1997-12-07 18:34:00
subject: newsgroups

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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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   slockwood@one.net.au
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