Dave, I'm using yahoo and accidently clicked Delete instead of reply to your last message: news.semware.com foxynews also requires that I type in a newsgroup name that is on that server. Do you know one off hand? Thanks John --- "Dr.X" <drx@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a news server but I don't have any articles on it yet ;-) I > never > actually activated it. I can do that. Hold on. Back in a jiff... > > Ok, done. > > Server name: cyberenhanced.com > > Try control.newsgroup > I'll send it a test message. > > Dr.X > > -----Original Message----- > From: ai_group-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:ai_group-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of John Jacques > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:47 PM > To: ai > Subject: [ai_group] newsreader project > > > Hello, I just tried Dr.X's suggestion of foxynews and although it has > a > few bugs in Windows 2000 I was able to get it to run. In the future > I'd > like to work on it a bit and fix it up some. > > Anyway, I'm going to move my newsreader C code into BCX and get it > all > working for foxnews news articles. > > Does anybody know of a free news server that I can log into for > articles? I tried news.microsoft.com, but it crashes foxynews > everytime. I then tried news.povray.com, but it has 48,000 articles, > I'm on a dial-up, and even though I waited for the headers and got 1 > message it keeps crashing with acess violations and freeze ups. > > I'm looking for a free newsgrop with a low message count. > > I'm going to start converting the code right now, but I may not > finish > until tommorrow night. > > Any ideas? > Thanks > John > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/