[OT - Cox.net] Re: cable broadband and dialup modem

[NoOp]

On 03/03/2009 12:12 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 03/02/2009 07:39 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 
>                  ............snip............
> 
>>> The upshot is that I want as little to do with Cox as possible.
>>>
>>
>> Email Server  	News Server
>> POP Server: pop.west.cox.net
>> SMTP Server: smtp.west.cox.net
>> 	news.west.cox.net
> 
> Uhm....if I wasn't aware of this I wouldn't be able to send/receive mail 
> to/from this list.

Depends - you may have been posting from a gmane.org server rather than
an email account.

> 
>>
>> But if you are having problems with their news/mail, why not just use
>> them as a transport and set up news/mail with a 3rd party? For instance,
>> you can still get e-mail accounts via Sonic if you wish:
>> http://www.sonic.net/sales/hosting/ and there are many others (less
>> expensive). I'm sure that as a previous customer of Sonic that Dane
>> Jasper & crew would be happy to work with you.
> 
> I kept my sonic account alive when I went to Cox. I have already tried 
> posting thru their news server (news.sonic.net) but had the same problem 
> with posts to moderated groups not showing up. I even got a Giganews 
> account to try. Still no joy. The only common denominator in all this is 
> that my mail to the various news servers is going thru Cox's SMTP server. 
> Why that would contribute to the problem is beyond me but going thru a 
> dialup modem would bypass Cox and confirm whether or not their SMTP 
> server is at fault. What have I missed?

The cox.net groups? Is it just news or *both* email and news that you
are having issue with?
  Either way, it appears that it's not an Ubuntu issue so I'll drop out
of the [OT - Cox.net] subthread and let you get back to connecting both
dial and cable. My apologies for the interuption.