"Tim Phipps" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
Still trying to get the new NTL news server to recognise this group ...

Arfa

I guess you've got it sorted now but this has highlighted another use for
running a news proxy. I use Thunderbird as my client via the Hamster news
proxy server which I originally set up to filter out all the googlegroups
and aioe.org spam. All I had to do was put the name of the new server
into Hamster, wait for it to download the posts and all was well. No
changes needed to be made in the client and no need to resubscribe to any
groups.

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Tim Phipps

Yeah, all working now thanks. Actually, it wasn't so much that it was hard
to do, if a little tedious, just that it really gets on my wick when ISPs
find it necessary to change something that has worked absolutely fine for
years. I dare say that the problems that I had today were due to server
overload, when everyone found the messages from the ISP on the groups, and
then went trying to get their new server address set, as I did. Still, I'm
back reading and posting ok on all my usual groups using OE, and my X-News
is working ok also. Now when I can figure how to delete that old profile
from X-News, then I will be back on home ground !

Arfa