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From: Laura Smith <laura@dial.pipex.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.internet
Subject: Re: SONY SITE ACCESS
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:20:18 -0800
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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> To configure offline News readers like Free Agent, Netscape, etc.
> the news server is news.playstation.co.uk. This is entirely in
> addition and separate to newsgroups available through your provider.
> You MUST use a news reader that can use the authentication mechanisms,
> with Username and password being the same as for the Yaroze web site.

Net Yaroze comes with Navigator which will do the trick (see 
http://www.playstation.co.uk/newmembers/newsgroups for info).

> 
> News server problems at PIPEX will not affect your ability to talk to
> sony's news groups.Yep, the news groups are hosted by our own Server here.

> 
> Every provider has problems at times. How long it takes to get fixed
> depends on the problem, and where the problem is caused, is what
> matters.

To be honest, I have found using this PIPEX account (with a pathetic 
14.4 modem) much better than the Demon account with a 28.8 modem which I 
was using this time last year. 
But things change all the time - look at the back of Internet magazine 
for example - there they list the performance of the UK ISPs - this month 
there were problems woth the MS site's server

For interest, our main open site - http://www.scee.sony.co.uk site sits 
on a Demon Server.

Laura