And it came to pass that Daniel Hohenberger wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> From one day to the next, my Mozilla news client suddenly
> stopped working. When I tried to post to a specific
> newsgroup, I got the following error message:
> "Sending of message failed.
> The message could not be posted because connecting to the
> news server failed. The server may be unavailable or is
> refusing connections. Please verify that your news server
> setting is correct and try again, or else contact your
> network administrator." 
> 
> First, I still could post to other groups, but some hours
> later, not even that works.
> I know it's not a Server problem because I still can
> (obviously) post with my old Netscape 4.79.
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> TIA,
>     Daniel
> 
> 

Probably a corrupt Summary File.  
Completely close the program.
Find the file "<news.group.name>.msf" and delete it.
When you restart and open the group, you'll need to download all 
the headers again and re-set preferences, but you should be able 
to read and post messages again.

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