"Kai Schaetzl" wrote in message ...
Michael Jennings schrieb am Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:15:14 -0600:

She has IE6, Kai, as do I. I have only observed the behavior with msnews.

Then use other newsservers for comparison. I'm not astonished that you get
a connection problem to msnews from time to time. I haven't been using it
for years, it's about ten times slower as the one I use.
There might *still* be a problem on your PC or down the line before the
server, but you cannot use msnews for testing this. It's like testing a
street with bumps for smooth driving.

I am content to blame Microsoft's msnews server, and to click "retry," when
the no connection thing happens. That has yet to fail in coughing up the posts.
I'll keep an eye out for the behavior occurring with other news servers.