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Effective
today, customers must now use their dialup username and dialup
password to login to the newsgroups.
The
old username of "newservice" and "begin" will be
discontinued on July 1, 2002.
This from
OUR provider:
"This
change was necessary to combat newsgroup spam. Since the old
username/password could be used by anyone dialing into Qwest/UUnet/Aleron/Megapop
it had been widely distributed across the Internet and was
being used by many other ISP's that are not our customers
or clients. By having each subscriber use their own username/password,
we make it much easier to limit who is using the newsgroups
and combat spam."
Though many
do not use the Newsgroups (a fascinating, if not consuming,
part of the Internet, all on its own...), you will need these
settings for whatever NewsReader you prefer:
News
Server: news.mountainaccess.net
Username: Your Dialup Username (NOT Email Username!)
Password: Your Dialup Password |
To change
the username/password of the Newsgroups in Outlook Express:
- Launch
Outlook Express.
- Click
on "Tools - Accounts".
- Select
the "News" tab.
- Highlight
your newsgroup account: news.mountainaccess.net
- Click
on "Properties".
- Select
the "Server" tab.
- Edit
the username/password to match your dialup account username/password.
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