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SUCCESS!

I do not know what I was doing wrong; but after  re-doing  the whole set up
from scratch,   it works. The news is flowing - Hooray!

Many, many thanks for your help.

Season's Greetings

Colin

Colin May <dump@damen.co.ku> wrote in message
news:6r7ai2Fg6h39U1@mid.individual.net...
>
> <pete@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1229797985snz@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> > In article  <6r41pmFfdu6cU1@mid.individual.net>
> >            dump@damen.co.ku "Colin May" writes:
> >
> > > I use ntp1 and ntp as my time servers; and they worked fine using KA9Q
> > > running in MSDOS 6.22.  Before the changeover, the news would always
> start
> > > flowing immediately.
> >
> > How odd.  Which ROMP do you use?  Here it takes anywhere from a
> > minute upwards to get a time response; I originally thought that
> > it might be a DNS lookup problem, but plugging in a dotted quad
> > directly (not recommended) makes no difference.  I too am running
> > plain DOS 6.22 -- no MS Windows on this box!
>
> Many thanks for your help with this problem.
>
> My set up dials in on  0845 212 1666.
>
> I am using GREMNOs Version v0.3D Large.  The time sets even quicker with
> GREMNOS than  it ever did using the Demon supplied KA9Q.
>
> The line in the autoexec.net file   which you suggest has been tried.  It
> generates the error: "on attempt 1, 480 authentication required, nntp
error
> while getting news, response was 480, closing news session."
>
> (snip)
>
>
> > To the best of my knowledge, the Demon supplied KA9Q net.exe does
> > not have the capability to authenticate the news connection, nor
> > collect news by article number.  I use GremNOS (a drop in replacement
> > for net.exe -- Simon will be here soon to provide a download link)
> > but I think that YAN too can handle this.  NIN allows you to get
> > news via NEWNEWS, all you need to do is grab a GremNOS net.exe
> > and change the nntp command in autoexec.net from
> �
> The version of snews I am running is 1.30.  Could this have anything to do
> with the connection problems with the news servers?
>
>
>
> > nntp addserver news.demon.co.uk 600
> >
> > to
> >
> > nntp addserver news.individual.net 600 user yourNINname yourNINpassword
> >
> > I believe too that the new Demon offering doesn't support
> > mail2news (which the Demon snews does by default) -- for this you
> > will need GremNOS or YAN (and manually fix your outgoing posts to
> > mail2news@dcu or download a JohnWash version of snews that can do
> > direct posting to news).
> >
> > > I have read all the information that I can find on the matter, both
> > > contained in the Demon package and from on-line sources.  So far, I
have
> not
> > > come across any information on whether it is possible or if so what
> changes
> > > to make to the set-up.  Neither has a great deal of experimentation
with
> > > net.exe commands yielded any results other than error messages.
> > >
> > > Any assistance on this you could offer would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > I have made several postings to this group and also demon.service
> through
> > > someone else's set up; and none of them appear to have arrived.
> >
> > That sounds like it might be a mail2news problem.  But rest
> > assured that with the right net.exe and snews.exe you can receive
> > and post to news via NIN.  Please post again if you're still
> > having a problem or can't find the apps required -- someone will
> > help.
>
> Many thanks or your help.
>
> Colin
>
> <pete@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1229797985snz@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> > In article  <6r41pmFfdu6cU1@mid.individual.net>
> >            dump@damen.co.ku "Colin May" writes:
> >
> > > I use ntp1 and ntp as my time servers; and they worked fine using KA9Q
> > > running in MSDOS 6.22.  Before the changeover, the news would always
> start
> > > flowing immediately.
> >
> > How odd.  Which ROMP do you use?  Here it takes anywhere from a
> > minute upwards to get a time response; I originally thought that
> > it might be a DNS lookup problem, but plugging in a dotted quad
> > directly (not recommended) makes no difference.  I too am running
> > plain DOS 6.22 -- no MS Windows on this box!
> >
> > > Since the changeover, of course, my KA9Q set-up has not been able to
> access
> > > news from Demon.  I know the reason for this but have not been able to
> > > discover whether KA9Q can be used to access the news or, if so, how
the
> > > set-up can be changed so that it can be used to down load news from
> Demon.
> > > I have an account with Individual Net but cannot discover how or if
KA9Q
> is
> > > able to do an authentication of a third party news service.
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, the Demon supplied KA9Q net.exe does
> > not have the capability to authenticate the news connection, nor
> > collect news by article number.  I use GremNOS (a drop in replacement
> > for net.exe -- Simon will be here soon to provide a download link)
> > but I think that YAN too can handle this.  NIN allows you to get
> > news via NEWNEWS, all you need to do is grab a GremNOS net.exe
> > and change the nntp command in autoexec.net from
> >
> > nntp addserver news.demon.co.uk 600
> >
> > to
> >
> > nntp addserver news.individual.net 600 user yourNINname yourNINpassword
> >
> > I believe too that the new Demon offering doesn't support
> > mail2news (which the Demon snews does by default) -- for this you
> > will need GremNOS or YAN (and manually fix your outgoing posts to
> > mail2news@dcu or download a JohnWash version of snews that can do
> > direct posting to news).
> >
> > > I have read all the information that I can find on the matter, both
> > > contained in the Demon package and from on-line sources.  So far, I
have
> not
> > > come across any information on whether it is possible or if so what
> changes
> > > to make to the set-up.  Neither has a great deal of experimentation
with
> > > net.exe commands yielded any results other than error messages.
> > >
> > > Any assistance on this you could offer would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > I have made several postings to this group and also demon.service
> through
> > > someone else's set up; and none of them appear to have arrived.
> >
> > That sounds like it might be a mail2news problem.  But rest
> > assured that with the right net.exe and snews.exe you can receive
> > and post to news via NIN.  Please post again if you're still
> > having a problem or can't find the apps required -- someone will
> > help.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > --
> >    "We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
> >     we have borrowed it from our descendants."
>
>