> > > Hi, > > The news server that I use returns '503 No list of > newsgroup descriptions available.' when issued the > command 'list newsgroups'. This leads to the message > 'update task retiring' in syslog. Is there anyway to > get nntpcache to finish the update with a server > that has this problem? > > frankg@halcyon.com It most likely has -- newsgroups is simply the last list fetched on an initial update sequence. Cheers, Julian.