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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
news.tesco.net returns a ping and it resolves to VM and highwinds and there are set up instructions although they are old
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ok I can confirm that news.tesco.net is a valid newsgroup provider I installed grabit to check and on my vm connection it downloaded a grouplist including binary groups.
So yes Tesco does have newsgroups and they are the same as what VM have
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Is it valid on a tesco connection, though? news.virginmedia.com doesn't work outside of Virgin's connections so if news.tesco.net points to Virgin, will virgin's own servers detect it as Virgin or not?
I do believe that Tesco used to have a partnership with Virgin to offer dial up (I believe?) but their new stuff is all DSL so likely partnered with someone else. That probably explains why Tesco's news server points to Virgin but it might be a holdover from those dial up times.