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Elana
July 18th 03, 10:09 AM
I seem to remember someone was having a problem with the server...this
might be why...(from another of my newsgroups):

leslie > wrote:

> http://makeashorterlink.com/?G15E21E45
> News Server News.CIS.DFN.DE Name Change
>
> "From: (Vera Heinau)
> Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers
> Subject: [DFN-CIS] Change of Name
> Date: 10 Jul 2003 14:44:35 GMT
> Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
> Lines: 46
> Message-ID: >
> NNTP-Posting-Host: komodowaran.cis.fu-berlin.de (130.133.1.8)
> X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1057848275 6124906 130.133.1.8 (16 17 18)
>
> To all users of News.CIS.DFN.DE,
>
> There will be some changes within the organization of the news-service
> known as "News.CIS.DFN.DE" and operated by the computer center of Freie
> Universitaet Berlin, Germany.
>
> The computer center of Freie Universitaet Berlin (ZEDAT) has taken over
> the task of supplying a central news-service for member organizations
> of the German National Research and Education Network (DFN). As a
> result of this, the well-known name "News.CIS.DFN.DE" will be used
> exclusively in connection with this new service (DFNNetNews) from now
> on.
>
> Individually registered users that do not take part in DFNNetNews will
> continue to have access to the service using two new names:
>
> - News.Individual.NET (for international users)
> - News.Individual.DE (for German-speaking users)
>
> Announcements that concern this service will be tagged with
> "[Individual]" in the subject line.
>
> The change of name concerns both the name of the news-server itself
> and the URLs that point to the web-space connected with the service:
>
> http://news.individual.net/
> http://news.individual.de/
>
> As the service provided is identical for both servers, it is neither
> necessary nor possible to register for both.
>
> Note:
> =====
> Existing configurations will continue to work without the need for
> modification because the technical separation of services will take
> place internally on the server-side.
>
> We do ask you to follow the new installation guides available via
> http://news.individual.net/ for future setups though. Please make
> a special note of the new e-mail addresses for registration:
>
> (international users)
> (German-speaking users)
>
>
> Vera Heinau"
>
>
> --Jerry Leslie (my opinions are strictly my own)
> Note: is invalid for email