Just thought: I should have given the website (http://news.cis.dfn.de/) for that newsserver. I know over here there are a few of us experiencing missing posts with both Freeserve and BTInternet and also that there may be some people who would like to use usenet but whose ISPs do not carry newsservers and like me don't get on with web based systems like Google's (formerly deja-news).

Jon