Re: Time Warner quit offering newsgroups

On Jul 1, 4:56 pm, pak...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:20:01 -0700 in
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> K Barrett
<mormo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  wrote:
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> > No!  Motzarella carries alt.binaries.pictures.orchids!  Pretty cool!
> > Here's the link, if it helps anyone out...
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> >http://news.motzarella.org/
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> motzarella.org didn't initially carry abpo.
> I requested they ad it shortly after I started using them.
> They warned that they didn't have any real binary feeds, and
> content so far agrees with that.
> It'll be interesting to see how far Ray's test post propogates out.
> It may become use motzarella.org for posting orchid pics.
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> > K
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> > "K Barrett" <mormo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:SeydnSaah5tL2vfVnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Here's a link to two articles on the dropping of hierarchies.  I know
> >> people on the mystery group are going to Germany's motzarella (I
think I
> >> spelled that right) but again I'm pretty sure its text only.
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> >>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html
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> >>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967004-38.html
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> >> K Barrett
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> --
> Chris Dukes
> "Let all the babies be born.  Then let us drown those we do not like."
> -- G. K. Chesterton.

This is exciting news for me, so I went right to the site and
registered.
I got registered, got the e-mail with a password. First I tried
changing my old Time Warner account over to this by changing the
server name. etc. That didn't work and I figured it was because it was
sending out the wrong password (it didn't ask for a password).

OK, I should say I that I use Thunderbird for mail and newsgroups. Can
someone tell me what I'm missing? Here's what I did:
I started over making a new account. I assumed there would be a place
to put in the correct user name and password. I was never prompted to
put in a name or password and the new account didn't work either.

[ Hold on, I just thought of one more thing to try and stumbled onto
the answer by pure luck. I'll continue with what I did in case others
need to know.]

Quote from the motzarella web site:
"The following clients are known to need explicit configuration:

    * Mozilla Thunderbird

      Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings
      Always request authentication when connecting to this server "

Of course, I did that before I started to write this message and it
still didn't work.

There are 2 hierarchies available without logging in. My idea was to
look for the answer there before I continued here. I subscribed to one
group that looked promising. It didn't have my answer but...
surprise... it asked for my name and password before I entered. Now
I'm logged in and have subscribed to the 2 orchid newsgroups.

So... as long as the motzarella deal lasts, I'm all set and this will
be my last post using Google.

Steve