Usenet,....news reader cant find news groups??

[Jowin]

hi,

I signed up to giganews and tried signing into Unison, it told me it couldn't find any news groups and that the reason could be my username and password were wrong. I've tried re-entering it a fews times and get the same problem. I also tried downloading iGrabNews to see if it was just Unison, on iGrabNews it cant find any news groups either. Although on iGrabNews it doesn't come up with an error message, it just does nothing when you tell it to search for news groups.

Im new to usenet and all this so i could be making a simple mistake, im not sure! I've also e-mailed Giganews about this...


Thanks for any help.

Owen

 

[br0adband]

hi,

I signed up to giganews and tried signing into Unison, it told me it couldn't find any news groups and that the reason could be my username and password were wrong. I've tried re-entering it a fews times and get the same problem. I also tried downloading iGrabNews to see if it was just Unison, on iGrabNews it cant find any news groups either. Although on iGrabNews it doesn't come up with an error message, it just does nothing when you tell it to search for news groups.

Im new to usenet and all this so i could be making a simple mistake, im not sure! I've also e-mailed Giganews about this...


Thanks for any help.

Owen

Giganews assigns a username/password unlike some other providers that will let you choose your own. Go to www.giganews.com and verify the login/password by logging into their website interface and checking out your account info first. If you can successfully log into the website with the l/p, then obviously there's some issue with your newsreader client.

I'm sure Giganews will be able to provide some type of assistance. I've been a member for a long time now and they always get back to me very quickly with the minor issues I've had over the years.

Good luck...

 

[Jowin]

ok, thanks for the quick response!

I heard back from giganews...the problem was that i didn't pay the extra $5 for SSL something or other and my newsreader was enabled with SSL so i had to turn that off before it would work.

 

[operator207]

SSL encrypts what your downloading or uploading to Giganews.

If that is something your interested in doing (keeping your ISP from sniffing what your doing in Usenet), I would suggest getting that option.

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