Hello, I read the discussion from yesterday about the username / password combination. The nntpcache.servers (2.3.3) doesn't include any examples on that. So I downloaded the newest release (2.4.0b5), but that doesn't seem to have examples, either. The news-server I'm talking about is "betanews.microsoft.com". Has anyone had any experience with it ? The username for this server is similar to "abcdefg\12345" and the password is some combination of letters and digits. What would the correct syntax for this kind of combination be ? I tried "abcdefg\12345:a8d83hdj2@betanews.microsoft.com", but the logfile said "could not convert ... to an address". Greetings, Thomas