Then it sounds like you've got a handle on it. Katy's
ISP has problems with it's server(s). I have one more
suggestion. It might be that they have too much security
on their proxy server. Katy should try bypassing the
proxy and set up her own firewall. She can de-activate
the proxy using the "Properties" dialog box and the
"Connections" tab of Internet Explorer.


"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ...
We've (ie includes my ISP and others) already been down that
path. Her ISP is running a black hole with no event horizon. One
can track posts, emails right to their entry into her ISP, then
zilch, nothing, naught. What occasionally emerges deifes
probability (a naked singularity).

FT

Simple Simon wrote:

I think you are in error. My ISP, for example, sends all news directly
to GigaNews. Their proxy server is only just a step in the process.
No changes to headers or rules are enforced.

Katy should try doing a tracert to look at all the steps to her
Kraut server. She might get a clue there.

Katy if you're reading this open a command window. It can be found
on XP start menu under Accessories.

In the open window type "tracert news.leapfroginet.com"

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ...
The problem is not with the Germans, but with Katy's mickey mouse
US ISP.

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Simple Simon wrote:

Tell them to get rid of that mickey mouse German university news server and sign on
to a decent US outfit like GigaNews.

"katysails" wrote in message ...

OK, then the server is the problem. Contact support@yourIsp

I've had running commentary from them ever since I got back. Taddy's ISP has even got into the fray...they say there
is
nothing
wrong with Leapfrog...This isn't as bad as AIL yet, but it's getting there...
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