Oh! Okay. Thanks for the update Helen, greatly appreciated.

Kind regards.
Bhavbhuti

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

> At 12:25 AM 10/12/2009, you wrote:
> >Hi all
> >
> >Please bear with me as I did not know where to post this so this is the
> place I though might be correct.
> >
> >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."
> >
> >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
> >
> >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
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