In article , "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
I am having a difficulty configuring one of my computers that crashed.
It does not want to accept news-server as a valid server. Anyone else using
news-server as your news server? As you can see it works on another one of
my computers.

Since 'news-server' isn't a valid name for a server (no domain), I'm betting
that that's an entry in the HOSTS file on the computer that's working, and
said entry is missing on the one that's not. Also check to make sure that your
DNS settings are the same on the two computers. Bottom line is, on the machine
that's working, something is translating 'news-server' to a valid IP address,
and on the other machine, that's not happening.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.