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*** Cross-post alert: please maintain this cross-posting, as I cannot
download postings made to claranet.support (or any other claranet.*
group) ***

For around a week now, I have been unable to download news from Claranet
via my dial-up account with them.  There is no problem actually
connecting, and no problem accessing the mail server - it's just the
news server.  Most of the time I don't seem to connect to it
(news.clara.net) at all (although I did manage to make a posting to
claranet.support a couple of days ago, to which I have of course not
seen any replies other than one which was kindly e-mailed to me).
Sometimes, I do connect, and retrieve a list of posts waiting to be
downloaded, which now numbers over 100;  and then, after about five
minutes, I get:

Unexpected NEWS 5xx : 500 connection to server daves.uk.clara.net port
119 failed: timed out waiting for banner from remote server

Most of my newsgroups I collect from news.individual.net, but there are
some which they don't carry that I can only get from Claranet, and I do
feel that this situation has dragged on for long enough.  I have made no
changes to my settings, so I cannot imagine what the problem is, but I
am getting very fed up with it.
-- 
Molly Mockford
I think I've been too long on my own, but the little green goblin that
lives under the sink says I'm OK - and he's never wrong, so I must be!
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)