Re: Problems getting news from here ?

In article <EEg...@ox.ac.uk>, "sam...@merton.ox.ac.uk
" <sam...@samantha.martin.merton.ox.ac.uk> writes
>In article <tWv...@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird---St Hippo of
>Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>I am reading from news.demon.co.uk, which I understand is 
>>readable from non-demon acoounts.  I got about 15 or 20
>>articles today.
>>                ~~~~~~~
>sooo...how do you get to read from demon accounts if you have a
>different server?  Only asking cos from uni I'm unabe to get the same
>newsgroups that I could get from my demon account at home <sob>

  I think, if you configure your newsreader to get news
 from a node called "news.demon.co.uk", that will do the job
 [if you can point it at any node you like, rather than some
 fixed news server on an internal network].  You can't telnet
 into your demon account via your accademic network -- purely
 because you have to log in from your fixed IP number not
 the uni's node -- but you probably could telnet into a
 an account with Netcom UK or similar.  Isn't there anyone
 around uni who is good at these things (i.e. a clever compsci
 student who knows about subversive things like outside newsservers)


                                                            
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