There are alternative ways of accessing the newsgroups - you can use
Google Groups (as I tend to do), or you can use eg Outlook Express -
here's some details about how to set this up:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jul 31, 2:29*pm, Derrick wrote:
im tired of writing long and detailed questions so i can get answers, and
have 'service temporarily unavailable' or *'error occured while sending your
post'
its rediculous. *i had to try 8 times just to open this one, and had to
re-post it 3 times. *Just so that i can tell you how pathetic its becoming.

Seriously. *i get 'error sending your post' messages while im trying to open
up a question... im not even posting!

please. pull up your socks and deal with this.

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