Simon Brooke wrote:
> There is no URC site. Usenet doesn't work like that; it's a
> store-and-forward network. It sounds as if your local server (most
> likely your ISP's news server) isn't accepting messages; there could be
> a lot of reasons for this (not enough bandwidth, not enough disk,
> broken software...). If your ISP's news server is ****, one solution
> would be to get an account with a different server; many of us use
> news.individual.net.
For people, like me, on BlueYonder the news server given in the set-up
documentation - news.blueyonder.co.uk - is very patchy. There is,
however, the text-only alternative news-text.blueyonder.co.uk. This is
orders of magnitude better as long as you don't need to access the
newsgroups that carry binaries.
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Dave...
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the
future of the human race. - H. G. Wells