At 12:25 AM 10/12/2009, you wrote:

>Hi all
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>Please bear with me as I did not know where to post this so this is the place I though might be correct.
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>I use Atkin server to bring the posts from here onto my computer. Past couple of weeks I have not been able to and getting the message "Connection to server news.atkin.com timed out."
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>I use ThunderBird (ver. 2 till yesterday ver. 3 from today) if it matters. All other news servers are working fine for me for eg. news.jrsoftware.org
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>I apologize if this was the wrong place for this question.

It would be better in firebird-general, since it's nothing to do with tools. Last week the news server was discovered to have been badly compromised by Black Hats (since the last week of October, probably) and was shut down immediately. It is being rebuilt. The latest we have is that it will be 2 or 3 more days.

Helen