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Old January 26th 04, 09:50 PM
Karen
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Newscene seems to have lost alt.binaries.pictures.animals. Grrrr. Tech
support never responds anymore. I guess tonight I look for a new service for
binary purposes. Grrrrr.

Karen


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Old January 26th 04, 11:43 PM
Christine Burel
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If you find one, Karen, could you post it here, too? Thanks.
Christine
"Karen" wrote in message
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Newscene seems to have lost alt.binaries.pictures.animals. Grrrr. Tech
support never responds anymore. I guess tonight I look for a new service

for
binary purposes. Grrrrr.

Karen




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Old January 27th 04, 01:18 AM
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"Karen" wrote in message
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Newscene seems to have lost alt.binaries.pictures.animals. Grrrr. Tech
support never responds anymore. I guess tonight I look for a new service

for
binary purposes. Grrrrr.

Karen



Hi Karen,

I noticed a question from you on alt.binaries.pictures.animals where you
asked if your photo of Pearl had appeared. I just thought I would let you
know here -- in case you still can't see images on that newsgroup -- that
Pearl's picture shows up on my ISP, and it is a beautiful photo. You have
also had a number of messages posted there as a result of your question.

MaryL


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Old January 27th 04, 01:43 AM
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"Karen" wrote in message
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Newscene seems to have lost alt.binaries.pictures.animals. Grrrr. Tech
support never responds anymore. I guess tonight I look for a new service

for
binary purposes. Grrrrr.

I _almost_ ran into a a bigger problem yesterday night. I couldn't connect
to my ISP's news server at all! I knew that they perform their periodical
maintenance on Sunday nights, so I called them, and, yes, that was what was
going on. All right, I went to bed. But this afternoon I still couldn't get
in. Hmmm...

I use Outlook Express as my news reader, and I looked at the details in the
error message: 'Authentication required', it said. What? I have been
subscribing to this ISP for more than two years, and I have never had any
problem with athentication to the news server, but obviously, yesterday they
found out "Let's scare the hell out of these stupid customers of ours, and
see how many of them manages to put in a legal user name an password in the
OE settings! Ha-ha!" I did, and now it works fine again, but I had some very
confused hours before i figured it out...

--
Hans


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Old January 27th 04, 02:17 AM
Karen Chuplis
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in article , Christine Burel at
wrote on 1/26/04 5:43 PM:

If you find one, Karen, could you post it here, too? Thanks.
Christine
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Sure. I'm thinking of Giga news.

karen


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Old January 27th 04, 02:21 AM
Karen Chuplis
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in article , Hans Schrøder at
wrote on 1/26/04 7:43 PM:

"Karen" wrote in message
...
Newscene seems to have lost alt.binaries.pictures.animals. Grrrr. Tech
support never responds anymore. I guess tonight I look for a new service

for
binary purposes. Grrrrr.

I _almost_ ran into a a bigger problem yesterday night. I couldn't connect
to my ISP's news server at all! I knew that they perform their periodical
maintenance on Sunday nights, so I called them, and, yes, that was what was
going on. All right, I went to bed. But this afternoon I still couldn't get
in. Hmmm...

I use Outlook Express as my news reader, and I looked at the details in the
error message: 'Authentication required', it said. What? I have been
subscribing to this ISP for more than two years, and I have never had any
problem with athentication to the news server, but obviously, yesterday they
found out "Let's scare the hell out of these stupid customers of ours, and
see how many of them manages to put in a legal user name an password in the
OE settings! Ha-ha!" I did, and now it works fine again, but I had some very
confused hours before i figured it out...


It wouldn't be so bad, but this has been going on for almost three months.
If the free server were having as bad of problems, I would say 'OK,
propogation difficulties' but the german serving is doing fine. At least
they did answer my email today. They have ignored the last two I sent. I
don't mind paying for news service if it is decent. If individual.net can do
as well as it does on a non pay basis, I would expect more from one that is
getting funded!!

Karen

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Old January 27th 04, 03:18 AM
Hopitus2
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Sympathize with your trouble. Rarely it's happened to me: but paying through
the nose for cable ISP, I don't send email - call their tech
support/cust.svc. on phone (easy to do since cable doesn't use your phone
line) and rave at them till they walk me through a solution, as they have
all the answers, including the long-forgotten password access business for
mail and newsgroups of all types. And yes, giganews does offer that
binary...I never go to binaries, but did this time: the Black Pearl in
profile is a beauty, indeed, at her window seat.

"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message
...
: in article , Hans Schrøder at
: wrote on 1/26/04 7:43 PM:
:
: "Karen" wrote in message
: ...
: Newscene seems to have lost alt.binaries.pictures.animals. Grrrr. Tech
: support never responds anymore. I guess tonight I look for a new
service
: for
: binary purposes. Grrrrr.
:
: I _almost_ ran into a a bigger problem yesterday night. I couldn't
connect
: to my ISP's news server at all! I knew that they perform their
periodical
: maintenance on Sunday nights, so I called them, and, yes, that was what
was
: going on. All right, I went to bed. But this afternoon I still couldn't
get
: in. Hmmm...
:
: I use Outlook Express as my news reader, and I looked at the details in
the
: error message: 'Authentication required', it said. What? I have been
: subscribing to this ISP for more than two years, and I have never had
any
: problem with athentication to the news server, but obviously, yesterday
they
: found out "Let's scare the hell out of these stupid customers of ours,
and
: see how many of them manages to put in a legal user name an password in
the
: OE settings! Ha-ha!" I did, and now it works fine again, but I had some
very
: confused hours before i figured it out...
:
: It wouldn't be so bad, but this has been going on for almost three months.
: If the free server were having as bad of problems, I would say 'OK,
: propogation difficulties' but the german serving is doing fine. At least
: they did answer my email today. They have ignored the last two I sent. I
: don't mind paying for news service if it is decent. If individual.net can
do
: as well as it does on a non pay basis, I would expect more from one that
is
: getting funded!!
:
: Karen
:


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Old January 28th 04, 01:27 PM
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"Karen" wrote in message
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Newscene seems to have lost alt.binaries.pictures.animals. Grrrr. Tech
support never responds anymore. I guess tonight I look for a new service

for
binary purposes. Grrrrr.

Karen


Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with Newscene. They were great for 3 years
and in the last couple of months, things have gone severely downhill. I
have set up the German newsserver and am getting many more posts per day on
that one. Since I can't do binaries with my super slow connection anyway, I
have decided to cancel Newscene at the end of the month and save myself
$17.95 CDN.
I hope you figure out what's going on with them or find a better server that
does binaries.
--
Britta
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album





 




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