Re: newsreader that doesn't require ISP account?

On 2008-01-02, Frank Slootweg <this@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
You do not need an ISP account to use any news-reader, as far as I'm
aware; just an internet connection and an account with a News Service
Provider (NSP).

I don't know, but couldn't it be that the OP's problem is not that he
doesn't have *Internet access* - because he obviously *has* -, but that
he can't use *NNTP* or/and *port 119* via that Internet access?

Note that he said "I have to use the wi-fi at libraries, cafes and the
like.". I have never used such facilities, but I could well imagine that
they only allow HTTP[S], POP and SMTP (via the default ports).

P.S. XS11E please take note! :-)

Perhaps the OP will find the way back here and enlighten us. He doesn't
actually say whether or not he's tried to access eg aioe or readfreenews.

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