Entourage 2004 / Newsgroups / Open BSD

[John B.]

I have never been able to access Astound's newsgroups with with Entourage X,
yet other newsreaders work fine. Astound uses "Open BSD" news server, which
has made it impossible for me to access newsgroups such as this one with
Entourage X, as Entourage X is not Open BSD savvy. Astound said that this
was a problem only with Microsoft's Macintosh products!

I prefer to use Entourage as my newsreader, so I've kept an account with my
old ISP solely for newsgroup access!

I hope things have improved so I can now access Astound's newsgroups with
Entourage 2004 ... and dump my old ISP.

Thanks for visiting this topic again.

John

 

[Adam Bailey]

I have never been able to access Astound's newsgroups with with Entourage X,
yet other newsreaders work fine. Astound uses "Open BSD" news server, which
has made it impossible for me to access newsgroups such as this one with
Entourage X, as Entourage X is not Open BSD savvy. Astound said that this
was a problem only with Microsoft's Macintosh products!

I've heard this complaint before but I've never gotten an actual explanation
for what it means.

First of all, OpenBSD is an operating system, just like the Mac OS or
Windows are operating systems. A news server is a program that runs on that
operating system. There are several news servers that you can run with
OpenBSD.

It's possible that a particular news server when running under OpenBSD has a
problem with Entourage. That would mean either the news server is doing
something that does not meet the NNTP standard, or Entourage is doing
something that does not meet the NNTP standard. That the problem would only
allagedly affect Entourage + OpenBSD suggests that the problem is fairly
obscure.

Can you get more specific information about what Entourage is allegedly
doing wrong? An error message or a problem description?