I too had a similar problem. Luckily, my ISP is small enough that the ISP
admin gave me a username and password to login to the news server - if the
IP-based authentication fails, it looks for a username and password. I LOVE
small ISPs. :) Seriously, though - that probably earned them my business for
life. I don't even use them for Internet connectivity anymore (I have a
cable modem now), but I'll gladly cough up $20.00 a month for an e-mail
address/news subscription/shell account when the customer service is that
good.
Anyhoo, back on topic. If you're interested in connecting to your news
server from a variety of IP addresses outside the domain of your ISP, your
best bet is to either (1) consider a subscription (read: money) service, or
(2) find a small ISP like mine that is willing to accomodate the specialized
needs of its customers.
If you live in the Akron/Cleveland OH area and want more information about
my ISP, feel free to drop me a line.
Michael Stack
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael R. Jinks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: News Groups - Off topic
> Is it because you don't use a dialup connection, or is it because you
> don't use _their_ dialup connection? A lot of ISP's limit connections
> to their news server based on the source IP of the connection, so that
> if you're abusive they know where to track you down. You may be
> familiar with a similar situation with SMTP mail routing: come in from
> some IP address that they don't own, and they have no way of knowing who
> you are or of responding if you don't behave yourself.
>
> Anyhow, my first impulse would be to contact the ISP that your workplace
> uses. Most ISP's operate news feeds, and as long as you're on one of
> their IP addresses they'll usually allow a connection.
>
> If your workplace's ISP doesn't have a news server or won't play nice
> with you, then things get tough.
>
> One option is to switch personal ISP's in favor of one that will let you
> make arrangements to read news from work. The last time I switched
> ISP's this was the reason, and the "new" ISP was willing to list my
> office's firewall's IP address in their news server's "allow" file, with
> my name as the contact. There are other ways to accomplish the same
> thing (like a user-authenticated server, which you mentioned already).
>
> Other options probably exist but practicality begins to deteriorate
> significantly beyond this point....
>
> -m
>
> Christopher W Aiken wrote:
> >
> > I have RH 7.0 both at home and at work. I use "slrn" to
> > read several news groups, again both at home and at work.
> >
> > I had to change ISP's and now I can not read my new ISP's
> > news groups from work because they don't authenticate users
> > unless they use a "dial-up-connection". I even tried
> > placing a `nnrpaccess "hostname" "user" "passwd"` in my
> > .slrnrc file, but no luck. At home I have no problems with
> > slrn because I have a "dial-up-connection".
> >
> > Are there any "free" news servers that I can use from
> > the office? I know about "Deja", but I don't want a
> > "web based" news service.
> >
> > Any help?? Any advise??
> >
> > --
> > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
> > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
> > Current O/S: Redhat Linux 7.0
> >
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