At 10:18 AM 5/03/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi Sean,
>
> > On Saturday March 6th, 2004 between 1000hrs and 1500hrs (Eastern
>Time),
>
>I've not had any messages though the news mirror since March 1, is
>it related? I'm still able to connect ok, there have just been no
>new messages.

The news server seems to be up but the mail server is definitely down, two
days now. No mail means no messages into or out of the news mirror.

Helen