David Rysdam writes:
>
> On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:36:56 -0400, "Michael ODonnell"
> wrote:
> > ...maybe you could fiddle with your browser's User Agent string.
> > The User Agent Switcher plugin is fairly painless to install and
[...]
>
> Oh yeah, I think when the switch first happened a few yea
On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 07:59 -0400, David Rysdam wrote:
> Actually, what I *really* should do is ask FairPoint why their news
> feed is broken. But from discussions found online, I doubt they'll
> even know what I'm talking about. I can't find any official claim that
> "news.fairpoint.net" is even t
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:36:56 -0400, "Michael ODonnell"
wrote:
> ...I got some HTML that looked legit, so maybe you could fiddle
> with your browser's User Agent string. The User Agent Switcher
> plugin is fairly painless to install and use for such purposes,
> though I'm happy to report that I n
> The one that customers are apparently supposed to use,
> www.myfairpoint.net *won't even display on my computer* and hasn't
> for years. I don't know if it's actually empty or what ("view
> source" shows nothing). Firefox on Linux.
Hmmm. When I said this:
wget -O - http://www.myfairpoin
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:10:19 -0400, "Michael ODonnell"
wrote:
>
>
> Once upon a time you could pay for pretty decent
> NNTP access via:
>
>http://www.giganews.com/
Hm, they seem to have some of the lowest prices for full newsgroup
access. So that's a pretty good deal. Among text-only feed
