The safePath routine in article.c does not allow ":" in a path but if you are accessing news from a server that is on a port other than 119 all files in the cache are saved with paths that contain ":"s so you get a complaint logged every time you try and access an article from that server. Mar 7 17:26:04 XXX nntpcached[1290]: article.c:41:Resource temporarily unavailable: path contained suspect characters: news.YYY:120/vuw/mlist/netbsd/b ugs/4040 My fix is to allow safePath accept ":"s. I can't think of any problem this would cause. cheers mark