Anonymous Servers - Octanews

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Octanews - Comments Please

DrErnstZundholz

2006-11-04, 1:12 pm

Am looking for an alternative since M2N Gateways with remailers seem to be
permanently down.

Some have recommended octanews.

Can you please post your experiences with this server.

How many newsgroups are included?
Does Mike Horvath allow different From, for posting?
Does he censor articles?

All comments will be appreciated.

Anonymous

2006-11-04, 7:13 pm

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006, DrErnstZundholz
<DrErnstZundholz@roc.usenetexchange.com> wrote:
>Am looking for an alternative since M2N Gateways with remailers seem to be
>permanently down.
>
>Some have recommended octanews.
>
>Can you please post your experiences with this server.
>
>How many newsgroups are included?
>Does Mike Horvath allow different From, for posting?
>Does he censor articles?
>
>All comments will be appreciated.

You are too stupid to live.

Nomen Nescio

2006-11-04, 7:13 pm

Admins

2006-11-04, 7:13 pm

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:12:59 -0700, DrErnstZundholz wrote:

> Am looking for an alternative since M2N Gateways with remailers seem to be
> permanently down.
>
> Some have recommended octanews.
>
> Can you please post your experiences with this server.
>
> How many newsgroups are included?
> Does Mike Horvath allow different From, for posting?
> Does he censor articles?
>
> All comments will be appreciated.

I recommend them to our subscribers who don't want the heavier news package
we offer, you can contact them directly and their excellent, regards
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Macarro

2006-11-07, 7:13 am

>> Am looking for an alternative since M2N Gateways with remailers seem to[vbcol=seagreen]

As far as I know they are the only news service provider that sell block
accounts and lets you use SSL, this is actually the only reason why I
joined them.
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All the ones I need are there and if it isn't you can request it to be
included,
however requests aren't anonymous (Astraweb requests are).
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I am not sure I know what that means.
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Not as far as I know, certainly much better than Teranews who recently
decided
to drop alt.flame.niggers because they did not like it but they have no
problem
carrying alt.flame.whites, that is the problem with censorhip, once you
start to
do it you should honour when other people demand you censor something else.
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I reccomend them for block accounts, for binaries you may be able to find
somewhere
cheaper. From a privacy point of view their website states that they do
not log downloads
but keep uploads logs for 30 days.
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The the

2006-11-14, 1:15 am

In article <sslpk2dtmqmael6i4c5g72itaoke3e7pgr@4ax.com>
DrErnstZundholz <DrErnstZundholz@roc.usenetexchange.com> wrote:
>
> Am looking for an alternative since M2N Gateways with remailers seem to be
> permanently down.
>
> Some have recommended octanews.
>
> Can you please post your experiences with this server.
>
> How many newsgroups are included?
> Does Mike Horvath allow different From, for posting?
> Does he censor articles?
>
> All comments will be appreciated.

Octanews is an excellent news service. For one, an account can
be purchased by money order. Two, they offer NNTPS (SSL).
Three, you can buy a block account, which will last a long time
if used for text.

My understanding is that Mike does not carry known child porn
groups (how he knows which ones are child porn, I don't want to
know).

Macarro

2006-11-17, 7:14 am

> My understanding is that Mike does not carry known child porn
> groups (how he knows which ones are child porn, I don't want to
> know).
>

My undestanding is that Mike does not work for the police department
and his job it is not to go after illegal material but to provide access to
news.

Let me add too that anyone claiming that news service provider X
does not carry "known" (by who?) child erotica groups is an ignorant
because Usenet is impossible to monitor accuratetly.

As far as I know Octanews is a one man operation which really tells you
everything you need to know about the amount of time that can be dedicated
to bullshit.

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The the

2006-11-18, 1:15 am

In article <op.ti4u7qffeih28w@localhost>
Macarro <any@email.invalid> wrote:
>
>
> My undestanding is that Mike does not work for the police department
> and his job it is not to go after illegal material but to provide access to
> news.
>
> Let me add too that anyone claiming that news service provider X
> does not carry "known" (by who?) child erotica groups is an ignorant
> because Usenet is impossible to monitor accuratetly.
>
> As far as I know Octanews is a one man operation which really tells you
> everything you need to know about the amount of time that can be dedicated
> to bullshit.

From the Octanews website:
"Group additions are not guaranteed to be done for multiple
reasons, including the validity of the group, groups containing
patently offensive material (child porn) or the like."

Macarro

2006-11-18, 7:12 am

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:18:40 -0000, The the <anon@comments.header> wrote:

> In article <op.ti4u7qffeih28w@localhost>
> Macarro <any@email.invalid> wrote:
>
> From the Octanews website:
> "Group additions are not guaranteed to be done for multiple
> reasons, including the validity of the group, groups containing
> patently offensive material (child porn) or the like."

There is a big difference between refusing to add groups that contain
offensive material as the website says to the claim you made saying
that Octanews has a crystal ball to find out all offensive material.

And if you know any news service provider that will add illegal child
pornography with their full knowledge please let us know as this
would constitute a crime, in other words, Octanews is not special
when dealing with this material they do like everyone else.

Admins

2006-11-20, 1:12 pm

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:22:26 +0100, The the wrote:

> In article <sslpk2dtmqmael6i4c5g72itaoke3e7pgr@4ax.com>
> DrErnstZundholz <DrErnstZundholz@roc.usenetexchange.com> wrote:
>
> Octanews is an excellent news service. For one, an account can
I agree
> be purchased by money order. Two, they offer NNTPS (SSL).
> Three, you can buy a block account, which will last a long time
> if used for text.
Mike's block accounts are non expiring, they last right up until you use
then up
>
> My understanding is that Mike does not carry known child porn
> groups (how he knows which ones are child porn, I don't want to
> know).
Octanews provides quality news and services and should be supported because
of the standards they keep. They've probably lost some business as a
result, business not to many would want anyway, but still lost business?

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The the

2006-11-21, 1:15 am

In article <op.ti7mu3pkeih28w@x039318.public.camden.gov.uk>
Macarro <any@email.invalid> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:18:40 -0000, The the <anon@comments.header> wrote:
>
>
>
> There is a big difference between refusing to add groups that contain
> offensive material as the website says to the claim you made saying
> that Octanews has a crystal ball to find out all offensive material.

Who made any claim about a crystal ball?