I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

JoHn wrote:
I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.

In article , bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:

JoHn wrote:
I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.


Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.

Steve

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Steve) wrote:

In article , bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:

JoHn wrote:
I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.


Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.

On one of the ADSL forums a BT employee said that the BT Broadband
customers are in the BT address pool but they regularly add the BTB
addresses to the blocklists for the BTO servers. Not sure if this is
true as I haven't heard of anybody unable to use BTO's mail servers.

I use the BTO mail servers for outgoing mail but subscribe to Easynews
because they are reliable and have *huge* retention.

Gareth

In article ,
(Gareth A.) wrote:

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Steve) wrote:

In article , bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:

JoHn wrote:
I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the
BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.


Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though
it is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.

On one of the ADSL forums a BT employee said that the BT Broadband
customers are in the BT address pool but they regularly add the BTB
addresses to the blocklists for the BTO servers. Not sure if this is
true as I haven't heard of anybody unable to use BTO's mail servers.

I use the BTO mail servers for outgoing mail but subscribe to Easynews
because they are reliable and have *huge* retention.

Gareth




No problems to speak of here, though I have found that the dynamic nature
of the BTO/BTB network means that IP address are often blocked en masse
from sending mail to certain domains. AOL being the obvious one. I
normally tell the recipient by sending via hotmail of the error of their
ways, and that it will be costing them business !

I find that retention is not the problem with news servers, afterall,
you're on 24/7 why not download news every hour ? I find that
/completion/ is the biggest problem, missing posts leading to broken
threading, and incomplete multi-part binaries.


Steve

Steve wrote:

In article , bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:


JoHn wrote:

I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.



Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.


"Allowing access" is different to "providing servers"

In article , bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:

Steve wrote:

In article ,
bat.guano@talk21dotcom (Bat Guano) wrote:


JoHn wrote:

I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.



Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though
it is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.


"Allowing access" is different to "providing servers"


CaRP - Ad nauseum :-/

- Steve

"Bat Guano" bat.guano@talk21dotcom wrote in message
...
Steve wrote:

In article , bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:


JoHn wrote:

I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot access
their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the address for the BT
news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.



Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers, though it
is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.


"Allowing access" is different to "providing servers"


Just admit you were wrong rather than get pedantic to make a point.

Phil Morris wrote:

Just admit you were wrong rather than get pedantic to make a point.


Allowing access *is* different to providing servers.

Phil Morris wrote:
"Bat Guano" bat.guano@talk21dotcom wrote in message
...
Steve wrote:

In article ,
bat.guano@talk21dotcom (Bat Guano) wrote:


JoHn wrote:

I have recently signed up to BT Broadband, however I cannot
access their news servers. Can anyone please tell me the
address for the BT news server?

Thanks very much.

BT Broadband is internet access only - no servers are provided.



Incorrect, BTB do allow access to usenet and to mail servers,
though it is not advertised and certainly not supported.

Try news.btopenworld.com or news.btinternet.com

also mail.btopenworld.com for SMTP and POP3

Contrary to popular belief, you may also run your own servers as
25,110,and 119 are *NOT* blocked.


"Allowing access" is different to "providing servers"


Just admit you were wrong rather than get pedantic to make a point.

But he's not as the service is being supplied by another supplier.
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