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In article <9rulrk$ocp$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
David McDuffee <mcduffee@best.com> wrote:
>I haven't been able to get news access on the migrated account.  In 
>speaking with Verio tech support today, they're apparently insisting 
>that news access will only be available via Verio's dialup connections, 
>which means my DSL and cable connections through other providers will 
>only be able to use non-news shell and email services at Verio.  I 
>dropped my Earthlink account a few months back when they adopted this 
>misguided policy.  The number of places which I'll have to notify that 
>my best.com email address is going away will mean it will take a bit 
>longer to detach myself from Verio, but it looks like the writing is 
>on the wall.
>
>Just in case the Verio tech support rep didn't know what he was talking
>about (that would be a first, wouldn't it?), has anyone else been able
>to use their migrated shell account to access ca.news.verio.net with an
>internet connection that doesn't originate at Verio?

1) Log into your new shell account, using telnet or ssh.
   It makes absolutely no difference where the incoming session originates.
2) Set the environment variable NNTPSERVER to one of these values:
	setenv NNTPSERVER 129.250.35.204
	setenv NNTPSERVER sea-read-dyn.news.verio.net
	setenv NNTPSERVER news.ncal.verio.com
	setenv NNTPSERVER ca.news.verio.net
3) Run "tin -r" to read news.  The NNTP client runs on the new shell server.


Script started on Fri Nov  2 12:44:15 2001
inwap@inwap> uname -a
FreeBSD inwap.com 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #3: Fri Aug 24 16:14:48 MDT
2001     root@fc:/usr/src/sys/compile/VKERN  i386
inwap@inwap> setenv NNTPSERVER ca.news.verio.net
inwap@inwap> tin -r
Reading config file...
tin 1.4.5 release 20010409 ("One More Nightmare") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-99
Connecting to ca.news.verio.net...
Welcome to VerioNEWS! (Typhoon v1.2.2)
Reading input history file...
Reading groups from active file...
Reading groups from newsrc file...
Checking for new groups...
Reading global attributes file...
Reading attributes file...
Reading newsgroups file...
Reading newsrc file...
Group Selection (ca.news.verio.net  21)
  M    1        comp.risks                Risks to the public from computers &
       2        alt.verio
       3        alt.verio.recovery
  M    4        verio.announce
  M    5        verio.ncal.announce
       6        verio.ncal.general
       7        verio.ncal.local-events
       8        verio.ncal.test
  M    9        verio.scal.announce
      10        verio.scal.general
      11        verio.scal.local-events
      12        verio.scal.test
      13        verio.test
      14   731  alt.sys.pdp10
      15     5  alt.animation.mainframe
      16  3558  alt.tv.reboot

Script done on Fri Nov  2 12:45:08 2001
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