🚀 go-pugleaf

On 23/08/04 17:54, Benji147461027 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using AOL's built-in Usenet reader, which is monumentally inadequate: it
> looks like a pile of pig excrement, handles like a whale, and has no anti-crud
> filters at all. So I've decided to use Thunderbird for my usenet purposes. One
> problem: I need to know the NNTP server for AOL. Does anyone know what this is
> or will someone give me the address for Wanadoo or something? Thanks.

Lol!!
According to <http://www.newsbin.com/ISP.htm>, AOL do not actually 
run an NNTP server. Not that this surprises me much, since they do 
not use standard POP3 email servers either. Shows how much notice 
they took of that customer comments card I sent to them after 
completing a free trial in about 1996!

I would suggest you go to http://news.individual.net/ - they offer 
a free Usenet server, but you have to register a username and 
password with them first, which takes a couple of days (its done 
by a human, not automated.)  They've always been very reliable for 
me, and they filter out most spam messages.

I would also strongly suggest you do not post under your main 
email address - open a Yahoo account or something, or use 
me@privacy.net (see <http://privacy.net/email/>.) Otherwise you 
*will* get vast amounts of spam. Do not make up an email address 
(if you use news.individual.net) - it is against their terms and 
conditions.

-- 
Tom Cumming

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