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Hmm. I'm getting the same problem with Freeserve now.  The same symptoms as
with Demon, which leads me to believe that it *is* a configuration problem -
I was assuming it was a news.d.c.u specific problem, which was why I posted
here.

slrnpull queries for new articles, then for message IDs, headers and finally
message bodies.  It's this final step - retrieving bodies - where the connection
is dropped for some reason.

FWIW, for slrn-pull I'm using 0.9.5.7, for slrn, I've now installed the newest 
version, 0.9.6.3.  S-Lang has been updated too.  I'm pretty sure, as you
suggested, it'll be either the config files or the header files at fault here.
I actually made no changes to the header files, or the Makefile while building
(although I did look through 'em in case I needed to).

I was suspicious that I may have used the same spool for the two different
servers, so I deleted the slrn-pull spool directories and started again.
Similar problem, with Freeserve this time.

This is annoying - I'm beginning to like slrn. 

The slrn-pull log isn't very helpful, a truncated version follows.

10/22/2000 21:16:39 Fetching articles for news.software.misc.
10/22/2000 21:16:40 news.software.misc: Retrieving articles 1-2911.
10/22/2000 21:16:40 1 duplicates removed leaving 25/26.
10/22/2000 21:16:40 news.software.misc: 25 articles available.
10/22/2000 21:16:55 news.software.misc: 25/25 (0 killed), Time: 00:47:07, BPS: 4873
10/22/2000 21:16:55 Fetching articles for news.software.readers.
10/22/2000 21:17:00 news.software.readers: Retrieving articles 1-58400.
10/22/2000 21:17:00 1 duplicates removed leaving 581/582.
10/22/2000 21:17:00 news.software.readers: 581 articles available.
10/22/2000 21:19:31 ***Connection to news.freeserve.co.uk lost. Performing shutdown.
10/22/2000 21:19:31 ***Connection to news.freeserve.co.uk lost. Performing shutdown.
10/22/2000 21:19:31 A total of 14535626 bytes received, 159806 bytes sent in 2983 seconds.

Now that I know this is a slrn problem, more than a server problem, I'll be
taking a look at news.software.readers.  

Thanks for your help Dan, if anything does occur to you, please drop me a line!