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    From Nomen Nescio@nobody@dizum.com to alt.free.nntp on Wed Apr 19 06:47:10 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.nntp

    Just finished are rather exhaustive look at so-called free and
    trial usenet servers. Will report back if I get any good answers
    to:

    Solani makes an account for me, but when my socksified client
    says "getting all groups" (or similar there servers time me out,
    regardless of the ip. I am connecting but they don't transfer
    the group data. Not a firewall issue. Any bright boy tell me why
    and a workaround?

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  • From anon@anon@free.invalid to alt.free.nntp on Sat Jul 22 06:33:49 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.nntp

    On 18 Apr 2023, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> posted some news:8f6454aae49052ef935426f5c191e92f@dizum.com:

    Just finished are rather exhaustive look at so-called free and
    trial usenet servers. Will report back if I get any good answers
    to:

    Solani makes an account for me, but when my socksified client
    says "getting all groups" (or similar there servers time me out,
    regardless of the ip. I am connecting but they don't transfer
    the group data. Not a firewall issue. Any bright boy tell me why
    and a workaround?

    Some news servers are blocking tor now. Symptom appears to be a connect
    with eventual connection refused. Only way around that is use a socks
    proxy or VPN.

    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Nomen Nescio@nobody@dizum.com to alt.free.nntp on Wed Dec 4 06:32:55 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.nntp

    On 21 Jul 2023, anon <anon@free.invalid> posted some news:733b23b0931f6f08d273b2bb4e0d92dc@dizum.com:

    On 18 Apr 2023, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> posted some news:8f6454aae49052ef935426f5c191e92f@dizum.com:

    Just finished are rather exhaustive look at so-called free and
    trial usenet servers. Will report back if I get any good answers
    to:

    Solani makes an account for me, but when my socksified client
    says "getting all groups" (or similar there servers time me out,
    regardless of the ip. I am connecting but they don't transfer
    the group data. Not a firewall issue. Any bright boy tell me why
    and a workaround?

    Some news servers are blocking tor now. Symptom appears to be a connect with eventual connection refused. Only way around that is use a socks
    proxy or VPN.

    They "think" they are blocking Tor. A savvy networker will make short
    work of that silliness.

    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2