In my experience, not getting news is almost never the fault of the newsreader, wven with possible updates having happened (at least on *nix). Like Troy, my first suspect is the news provider, then firewalls or other network issues. Try this from a terminal window or console: telnet your_news_server nntp (assuming you don't need a secure channel). If you get a connection, try "help". That will list commands. Then ask for an overview of a group you care about: group alt.guitar.amps The response will look like this: 211 5294 645506 650799 alt.guitar.amps if all is well. Then you can try: listgroup alt.guitar.amps to get the available article numbers. Finally try article 650799 (with a real article number returned in the previous step) to get an article. If it all works, then you have an issue with your reader or config file. Otherwise, you have a clue as to where the problem is. -Miles