Microsoft has a planned maintenance for the msnews.microsoft.com NNTP
services on Tuesday, April 04, 2006. Planned is a migration of the current
servers to a new cluster between 10:30 AM PDT to 4:00 PM PDT. During this
period of time, posts may be slower than usual in replication.

Newsgroups, such as this one, are hosted primarily by the Microsoft servers,
though replicated throughout the world by various services which may be
provided on a subscription basis by your Internet Service Provider or other
paid NNTP newsgroup access avenues.
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Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone