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Originally Posted by bioboy
Interesting. So what's to stop anybody who isn't with VM using the news servers?
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they authenticate via IP range, so if you are not on the VM network you get error 502 permission denied
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Originally Posted by blade85
I cant get on it.
every time i try it says access denied! Is it cause i was originally on a telewest connection??
by the way, im using grabit.
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if you are ex telewest you have tyo use news.blueyonder.co.uk anything else, such as news.cable.ntlworld.com will fail with a 502 permission denied on the network error the same as an ex ntl user trying to use news.blueyonder.co.uk
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Originally Posted by grubbymitts
What about the old news server addresses for Tesco.com and Virgin.net that used to run on the NTL servers? I think they were news.tesco.com and news.virgin.net, but I can't recall exactly. They were both available from an NTL connection and needed no password.
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basically any virtual isp that uses the VM backbone is able to be used, as you said virgin, tesco and also which online were able to be used, but some carried different groups to the others