On Feb 8, 2010, at 12:51 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> despite the traffic I am seeing on the mailing list side the news side
> seems to be quite mute since yesterday.  Any troubles?

Yes, it looks like our attempts to copy messages to Usenet are running into errors from our host:

  E, [2010-02-08 09:09 #27813] ERROR -- : The NNTP connection timed out

Fred, any idea what is going wrong?