"Signal" wrote


snipt


PIPEX are now contacting customers to let them know that the
transition period will end on the 14th of October 2005.


NEWS SETTINGS

If you currently use Usenet News, please make sure that your News
reading program is set to use the following news server:

nntp.dsl.pipex.com

You login simply using your normal network login and password.

SNIP


Hah! I wasn't 'contacted'!!

Nick G sent me the new server name but didn't mention the 'login' part, when
it failed I thought no more of it. Now I know what '480 authorisation
required' (or summat very similar) means.....