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[o/t] Is "fileforum.betanews.com" still working?
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Franklin
20 years ago
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Slightly off-topic ...

I get a lot of info about software from the feedback posted at
http://fileforum.betanews.com/ but for the last month or so I have
not been able to access it.

However some quite recent postings in Google Groups refer to links at
that site so maybe some people are getting through.

Can anyone tell me if they are able to access it?
j***@SoftHome.net
20 years ago
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I use this link.

http://www.betanews.com/
Franklin
20 years ago
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Post by j***@SoftHome.net
I use this link.
http://www.betanews.com/
That looks like a better link but sadly I also have the same trouble
with that one/
Gordon Darling
20 years ago
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Post by Franklin
Slightly off-topic ...
I get a lot of info about software from the feedback posted at
http://fileforum.betanews.com/ but for the last month or so I have not
been able to access it.
However some quite recent postings in Google Groups refer to links at that
site so maybe some people are getting through.
Can anyone tell me if they are able to access it?
No problem here. Check it's not blocked in your Hosts file for some reason?

Regards
Gordon
David
20 years ago
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Post by Franklin
Slightly off-topic ...
I get a lot of info about software from the feedback posted at
http://fileforum.betanews.com/ but for the last month or so I have
not been able to access it.
However some quite recent postings in Google Groups refer to links at
that site so maybe some people are getting through.
Can anyone tell me if they are able to access it?
I had no trouble accessing it about thirty seconds back.
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Matt
20 years ago
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Post by Franklin
Slightly off-topic ...
I get a lot of info about software from the feedback posted at
http://fileforum.betanews.com/ but for the last month or so I have
not been able to access it.
However some quite recent postings in Google Groups refer to links at
that site so maybe some people are getting through.
Can anyone tell me if they are able to access it?
If your ISP is NTLWORLD, London (Poplar proxy) group then you are a
victim of NTL's complete incompetence in managing the proxies,
specifying a proxy instead of allowing the default (transparent
grabbing of port 80 traffic) resolves it, unless you're unlucky enough
to pick the same one it would default to.

The technique (proxy shuffle) is probably applicable to any other ISP
with frequently malfunctioning proxies!

Of course, the other possibility is that abuse (through the default
proxy) led Betanews to block it - it's known to have happened with
some other sites, on an abuse or "excessive traffic" basis.
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I may be dozzzy, but take the ZZZ's out to mail me
http://www.junkroom.freeserve.co.uk/jvc2080.htm - 2x2x24 CD-RW troubles

If you drop a cactus, don't try to catch it!
Franklin
20 years ago
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Matt, you got it right and I am indeed using NTL to surf the web. OK,
so that is why I can't get to see sites like that one

I will try specifying a web proxy server and use port 8080.
Matt
20 years ago
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The essential site for the NTL afflicted
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/
Specifically, this
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/trancache.html#sidestep
And the list
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/trancache.html#ntl
Even other proxies in your local group (preferable for speed) may
work, though the Poplar set seem to be recurrently troublesome.

Also worth going to www.cableforum.co.uk (formerly nthellworld)
Also http://forums.ntlhell.co.uk/ (NTL Hell)

Is this one bad joke of an ISP or what - the freeware (note the squint
back to freeware topics) SQUID proxy would probably work better than
the mix of Inktomi and Netapp's that they use, or perhaps they just
need to learn how to configure them!
--
I may be dozzzy, but take the ZZZ's out to mail me
http://www.junkroom.freeserve.co.uk/jvc2080.htm - 2x2x24 CD-RW troubles

If you drop a cactus, don't try to catch it!
Bob Adkins
20 years ago
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Post by Franklin
Slightly off-topic ...
I get a lot of info about software from the feedback posted at
http://fileforum.betanews.com/ but for the last month or so I have
not been able to access it.
However some quite recent postings in Google Groups refer to links at
that site so maybe some people are getting through.
Can anyone tell me if they are able to access it?
Yep.

Here is a cool way to access it:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/releases?num=50

You can change the "50" to any number you wish.

-- Bob
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