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13 total messages Started by Olsen Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:22
Annoying pop-ups ?
#28230
Author: Olsen
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:22
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Playing TTD deluxe with 2.0.1 alpha 48.

How to get rid of these pop-ups about new vehicle etc. ?

\Olsen Denmark 
Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28231
Author: Josef Drexler
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:03
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Olsen wrote:
> Playing TTD deluxe with 2.0.1 alpha 48.
> 
> How to get rid of these pop-ups about new vehicle etc. ?

The new vehicle popups you can't get rid of.  I believe all the "etc." 
ones except error messages you can get rid of though.  Try changing the 
news message settings.

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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28232
Author: Olsen
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:51
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Josef Drexler wrote:
>> The new vehicle popups you can't get rid of.  I believe all the "etc."
> ones except error messages you can get rid of though.  Try changing the
> news message settings.

They're all at "summary"

\Olsen
Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28234
Author: Owen Rudge
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:29
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> How to get rid of these pop-ups about new vehicle etc. ?

Hmm, I had to move back to my ISP's news server since news.individual.net 
went commercial (and don't accept PayPal or anything very convienient for me 
as someone without a credit card), which doesn't filter out spam... thought 
this was going to be another spammy thread, until I saw Josef had replied to 
it. ;-)

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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28233
Author: Josef Drexler
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:37
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Olsen wrote on Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:51:58 +0200:
> Josef Drexler wrote:
> >> The new vehicle popups you can't get rid of.  I believe all the "etc."
> > ones except error messages you can get rid of though.  Try changing the
> > news message settings.
> 
> They're all at "summary"

Well, other than new vehicles and error messages, what popups are you 
getting?

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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28235
Author: Afoklala
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:52
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Op Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:29:28 GMT schreef Owen Rudge:

>> How to get rid of these pop-ups about new vehicle etc. ?
> 
> Hmm, I had to move back to my ISP's news server since news.individual.net 
> went commercial (and don't accept PayPal or anything very convienient for me 
> as someone without a credit card), which doesn't filter out spam... thought 
> this was going to be another spammy thread, until I saw Josef had replied to 
> it. ;-)

Many people have that problem. One solution, if you don't mind babelfishing
some Polish, is Gazeta.pl. You apply for an email account there, and you
get access to their newsserver as a sidedish. It's totally free, and since
I joined (two months ago) I have yet to get the first spam message (or any
message at all for that matter) from them. The news server is simply good.
Another, not so good, but still working newsserver is Maxwell,
dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu. You don't have to apply there at all, you just
create an account in your news reader and you're done.
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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28236
Author: Olsen
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:50
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Afoklala wrote:
>
> Many people have that problem. One solution, if you don't mind
> babelfishing some Polish, is Gazeta.pl. You apply for an email account
> there, and you get access to their newsserver as a sidedish. It's totally
> free, and since I joined (two months ago) I have yet to get the first
> spam message (or any message at all for that matter) from them........

Yeah, yeah, funny. You know I'm talking about Transport Tycoon?

\Olsen 
Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28238
Author: Tom Cumming
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:17
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On 05/04/05 07:52, Afoklala wrote:
<snip>
> Another, not so good, but still working newsserver is Maxwell,
> dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu. You don't have to apply there at all, you just
> create an account in your news reader and you're done.

That one appears to be read-only - I can read stuff but it won't 
let me post anything. Or have I done something wrong??
Thanks.

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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28239
Author: Afoklala
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:57
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Op Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:17:03 GMT schreef Tom Cumming:

> On 05/04/05 07:52, Afoklala wrote:
> <snip>
>> Another, not so good, but still working newsserver is Maxwell,
>> dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu. You don't have to apply there at all, you just
>> create an account in your news reader and you're done.
> 
> That one appears to be read-only - I can read stuff but it won't 
> let me post anything. Or have I done something wrong??
> Thanks.

Oh, that could very well be true... I have configured my newsreader to read
from several servers, and I post through my own ISP.
Another free one I use is Euronet (fb1.euro.net), but that may be read-only
too; also it has rather few newsgroups.
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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28237
Author: Afoklala
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:58
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Op Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:50:32 +0200 schreef Olsen:

> Afoklala wrote:
>>
>> Many people have that problem. One solution, if you don't mind
>> babelfishing some Polish, is Gazeta.pl. You apply for an email account
>> there, and you get access to their newsserver as a sidedish. It's totally
>> free, and since I joined (two months ago) I have yet to get the first
>> spam message (or any message at all for that matter) from them........
> 
> Yeah, yeah, funny. You know I'm talking about Transport Tycoon?
> 
We don't seem to understand each other.
Owen mentioned that he couldn't connect to his newsserver any more, so I
suggested another one to try. What's so funny about that?
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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28240
Author: topjes
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:54
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"Tom Cumming" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:d2v2ob$spi$1@joesbox.cjb.net...
> That one appears to be read-only - I can read stuff but it won't
> let me post anything. Or have I done something wrong??
> Thanks.

Hi,

I use this server (gazeta.pl), I have the option "This server requires me to
log on" (OE) checked and it works well.

topjes
Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28241
Author: Tom Cumming
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:27
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On 06/04/05 11:54, topjes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use this server (gazeta.pl), I have the option "This server requires me to
> log on" (OE) checked and it works well.

Yeah that one's working fine - it was the dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu 
one I couldn't get to work. It doesn't really matter, I was just 
curious..

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Re: Annoying pop-ups ?
#28242
Author: S?bastien WILLEMIJNS
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:59
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Afoklala <afoklala@afokla.la> wrote in message news:<fogueyv91k54.yffn37e1072m$.dlg@40tude.net>...

> Many people have that problem. One solution, if you don't mind babelfishing
> some Polish, is Gazeta.pl. You apply for an email account there, and you
> get access to their newsserver as a sidedish. It's totally free, and since
> I joined (two months ago) I have yet to get the first spam message (or any
> message at all for that matter) from them. The news server is simply good.
> Another, not so good, but still working newsserver is Maxwell,
> dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu. You don't have to apply there at all, you just
> create an account in your news reader and you're done.

dp-news is read only

list of free newsserver at
www.nntpeng.willemijns.com
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