Wednesday Nov. 11, 2020 Santa Rosa, California
Newsgroups are in the news here!
We are using newsgroups to provide technical support for these products: WebHub, Rubicon and IIS Backup.
To participate, you will need
- a newsgroup reader such as
- the address of our newsgroup server: news.href.com
- we run on the default NNTP port, 119
- a username and password:
request from customer service
because the news.href.com server requires you to log on
Newsgroup Names
Probably your NNTP client will show you the available
newsgroups. Consider subscribing to:
- hreftools.public.announce
- hreftools.public.rubicon.support
- hreftools.public.rubicon.install
- hreftools.public.webhub.support
- hreftools.public.webhub.install
General Advice on NNTP Connectivity
Embarcadero provides a very helpful overview
here, Article #38435. This article explains, among other things, how to use XanaNews to connect to Delphi newsgroups and other public newsgroups hosted by Embarcadero. Look for the section titled Newsgroup Reader Configurations.
XanaNews - Authenticate Setting
If you are using XanaNews, go into and make sure that the checkbox for
Always Authenticate is turned ON as shown in the
screenshot here.
If you have trouble reading messages, go into
and turn off XOVER and possibly turn off pipelining. The number of connections is probably
not important, you can keep the default value.
Exit and restart XanaNews between major changes to the
connection settings because you can get different results, using the same settings, after a restart of XanaNews.
If you have trouble downloading ALL our newsgroup
messages with XanaNews, try downloading just headers
and then, if you are interested in any particular message, click into it to download that particular message. That will be
quicker for you, and is much more likely to work.
Thanks to
Peter Hyde at WebCentre in New Zealand for the
XOVER, etc. advice.
XanaNews - Message Order
Sometimes it helps to see messages as threaded conversations. Sometimes it helps to see just the newly added ones. To toggle
between these, go into .
Alternative NNTP Clients
There are many alternatives to XanaNews, including
Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook. Wikipedia lists more than a dozen.
NNTP Server - Credits
Many thanks to Steffen Wendzel, the author of the
open-source NNTP server behind news.href.com.
We ran the win32 version for many years,
and moved to CentOS7 in March 2015. If you are interested in running your own NNTP server, look for WendzelNNTPd-OSE on Source Forge.