On June 9, 2003 04:29 am, Vik Heyndrickx shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > And it most likely failed because the news server you are using is > rejecting connections, probably because the news server software is/was not > running because it crashed or was brought down for maintenance, or the > admin of that server has blocked access from your IP address (intentionally > or not). I see. IOW, the problem is with my ISP and not at my end. Thanks, I'll contact Vidéotron's tech support. 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.