>This could be an articfact of the parent INN server. 1.6 had >limits on the maximum number of articles which could be retrieved >in one sessions before forcible 2-3 second delays were introduced. Sorry, I guess I didn't make it clear. This is mostly with respect to doing the xover transfer. Downloading the articles themselves seems to progress relatively well, it is just getting the headers up front that takes so long. Evan