Well, it was fun while it lasted...

[John]

Bryan Pizzuti wrote:
> 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.

Or even another ISP.

I get really shirty when someone tells me what service I want. Or to 
install Windows to test the DSL connexion.