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From: "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: nntp.aoie.org not working?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:18:29 +0000 (GMT)
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In article <553c28f244alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk>,
   Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > Today I see "Server is under maintenacnce, will be back in a few hours",
> > but the news-server seems to be working again (if you see this).

> > Tony

> Thanks for that. I've just been using it so we will see how long it stays
> up. Thanks to those who suggested "Eternal-september" but will stay as I
> am for the moment until I have more time as it saves altering things.

Since you're using Newshound as I am, you don't really need to alter
things as such just add a second file to Config for Eternal September and
it will visit both. It won't download duplicate messages either. If one or
the other is down you will get an error message - but it will still use
the working one. You do need to visit the September site to arrange a user
name and password.

Here's mine as a guide - hope I've given the correct info as it was done
quite some time ago. ;-)

(File name I've used is nesGroup)

# NewsHound news server group file
# Automatically Created on Mon Aug 28 18:28:43 2000
#
# Rule file name:
Global
# News server hostname:
news.eternal-september.org:8119,<username>,<password>
# Last new groups time
NEWGROUPS	160103 140353
# Newsgroups:
comp.sys.acorn.apps	19223
<etc>

#

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