Mozilla Newsreader problem

[vlok stone]

see if you can connect by 
telnet news.buffnet.net 119
i was able to no problem. 

--- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> I have Mozilla 1.6 (and past versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.5)
> on Linux and 1.3 on 
> Windoze (too lazy to do the other long download). 
> My ISP is Buffnet 
> (and I'm trying to get help from them.)
> When I access my news account in 1.3 on Windoze, it
> works.
> When I try anything with news on 1.6 (or 1.3) on
> Linux, I get:
> 
> Could not connect to server news.buffnet.net, the
> connection was refused.
> 
> My email and browsing in Mozilla 1.6 on Linux work
> fine.
> As far as I know the news settings are the same for
> Windows and Linux.  
> I even have the IP address of news.buffnet.net in
> the setup and get the 
> same error message.
> 
> Any idea what I should look for?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 
> -- 
> If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace,
> then progress in virtue is progress in each of
> these; for to whatever point the perfection of
> anything brings us, progress is always an approach
> toward it. -Epictetus
> 


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