On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:30:01 -0400, "katysails"
wrote:


So...... their point is ???????????

Their point is that they have no sympathy regarding my not being able to crosspost or receive messages from oz....

Ah, customer service at its finest.

WRT sending messages via news.cis.dfn.de, I really can't see how your
problems have anything to do with your ISP, though. I have a
connection through the firewall to news.cis and that's all there is to
it. The news server can control x-posts etc but all the local isp is
doing is providing the carriage of data packets. If nothing was
getting through, ok, the isp has blocked the port to the news server,
but what you're seeing is a bit strange. I'd suspect your local
software is the problem.

Peter Wiley