Well, it was fun while it lasted...

[Bryan Pizzuti]

Yep, tried tin.  I spent last night doing some back and forth with my
ISP...turns out I CAN connect to other ISP's servers on port 119 before
being booted off for not being on their network, so something's screwey on
their server. However, so far my ISP's thing is that it must be my OS, and
they don't support Linux (Fresh installs of Ubuntu and Debian, and a
Slackware-based LiveCD having the same problem, but ONLY with
news.optonline.net and not with other news servers?).  Turns out this is an
ISP problem...problem now is convincing THEM of that (you'd think they'd
listen to a fellow support person, wouldn't you?)

May have to investigate availability of DSL.

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 6:54 AM
To: Ubuntu Users
Subject: Re: Well, it was fun while it lasted...

Bryan Pizzuti wrote:
> (Back on Windows for now) Sure.  Trying to add anything to the 
> subfolders of the Applications menus doesn't work, even as root (which 
> I enabled).  The launchers simply fail to be created, no matter what 
> user I use (And there seems to be no other way to edit the menus in
GNOME).
> 
> Secondly, NONE of the news clients work...tried them all.  This might 
> not be

Use telnet to chat to the news server and see what goes on. A little
googling should turn up enough specs on the nntp protocol.

At the very least it should tell you whether is the service or you client.

btw Did you try tin?







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