On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:48 +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote: I should have worded that one better. What I meant was that email's nice, because all my mailing lists and other mail comes to the same place without me doing anything, *then* I filter it as necessary. Having multiple NNTP server accounts seems a little like the multiple web forum point made earlier; multiple logins and information in different places - I still need to change servers n times to read all the newsgroups I'm subscribed to. OK, it's not as much hassle as the web scenario, but it's more trouble than email I believe. Lots of corporate entities will have transparent web proxies intercepting port 80 though. I'm not sure how clever they are - do they intercept *all* port 80 traffic then either process it or fail, or do they pass through non-HTTP traffic on port 80 as though it was never touched by the proxy at all? I imagine both types exist, at least. cheers J.