So I'd heard that CompuServe had banned access to all those naughty newsgroups including my favorite alt.binaries.erotic.senior-citizens. Could this be true? I fired up my CompuServe Internet Dialer (the PPP software packaged with WinCim and logged on to the nets. Sure enough. The popular binaries groups were missing from news.compuserve.com. But not to be deterred... I grabbed a copy of the Free Agent newsreader: http://www2.interpath.net/forte/agent/freagent.htm ftp.forteinc.com/pub/free_agent/fagent10.zip I grabbed the latest list of open NNTP Servers from: http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/open-sites.html I pointed my copy of Free Agent at CPCNET's open news server (198.70.185.5) and grabbed a list of groups sure enough, there were the seasoned citizens in all their glory. And I was checking out those binaries via CompuServe. Don't tell the Bavarians. DCF