I can't connect to my ISP's news server, either with Mozilla or with PAN. This is what the log in PAN shows: News server connection count: 0 Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:55:15 - Connection to news.videotron.ca, port 119 failed: Connection refused Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:55:15 - Error: reading from socket returned -1. Bad file descriptor Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:55:15 - NNTP handshake failed: Error reading from socket. Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:55:15 - Handshake failed: Error reading from socket. Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:55:15 - NNTP handshake failed: Error reading from socket. Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:55:15 - Connect Failure (Kindly pardon my ignorance...) What does "error reading from socket" mean? ... and why am I now suddenly getting this problem? I *did* check with Google to try and educate myself, but I couldn't find a clear explanation. My search results just turned up the same question being asked here and there.... Elton -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.