Julian Assange wrote: > Michael Siebke <michael.siebke@kecam-han.de> writes: > > > news.3dfx.com. DEFAULT 24h 4d 4d 30m > ... > > 3dfx.* news.3dfx.com > > You have a trailing dot on one server name, but not the other. Yes, that was the problem :-) I patched the source a little bit to get some more debug information and after all found the problem. Anyway, thank you. Btw, in the meantime the evaluation has finished. The order is ongoing, one company using nntpcache more... Regards, Michael Siebke PS: Up to now I could never reach the news server "news.nntpcache.org" mentioned in the samples configuration files. Is this server gone?