Message-ID: <3D0ED1E7.8070308@attbi.com> From: oldCoder Organization: Programming and Network Administration User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: comp.os.msdos.djgpp "Server could not be found" References: <001b01c214e4$5ffab4c0$0100a8c0 AT compaq> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.41.67 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT attbi DOT com X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1024381407 24.128.41.67 (Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:23:27 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:23:27 GMT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:23:27 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Another possibility is "netnews.fast.net;" that's what my ISP uses. -Phil A. Sinn Inner wrote: > "Dan Bliss" wrote in > news:001b01c214e4$5ffab4c0$0100a8c0 AT compaq: > > >>I am getting an error attempting to access comp.os.msdos.djgpp . Can >>you point me to a relevant FAQ of related problem, or suggest another >>course of action. I'm running Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP. >> >>Below are details of the problem: >> >>Your 'comp.os.msdos.djgpp' folder was not polled for its unread count. >>Account: 'comp.os.msdos.djgpp', Server: 'comp.os.msdos.djgpp', >>Protocol: NNTP, Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11004, Error >>Number: 0x800CCC0D >> >> > > you did not configure OE correctly. you need to specify a news server. > comp.os.msdos.djgpp is the name of the group, not that of the server. ask > your ISP to find out if they have a news server, and its name. or you > might go ahead and try news.fast.net (i am assuming your ISP is > fast.net). > >