"David Holgate" wrote in message
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A good question. I think that the reason the group is dying for
posts
is that few of us vinyl nuts can gain access to it. I have
corresponded
with my ISP, and taken various courses of action suggested by them,
but
still have no access either.

Another route is to use News Net. Information about the NetNews
service
is available at:

http://news.individual.net/

The trouble there is that this is a university website, which seems
unmanned (unpersoned?) over this summer recess period.

I have been using news.individual.de (after moving from BT) for a few
months now without any problems, other than this weeks downtime. I'd
definitely recommend switching