At 9/7/2000 12:06 PM (Thursday), you wrote:

>Am I the only one to often have difficulties accessing news.mers.com ?
>It happens often over a week. I try again the next day : works.
>Tried today : failure.

You are not the only one. It has regular failures for me when it just does
not respond at all. I just wait an hour or two and try again.