how do I use newsgroup server?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"%u" <yoyo at yo.com> wrote in message news:j65a5r$nhr$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> Directions look very promising.  My outlook complains about
> "problem connecting to the server".  So, when I tried to ping the
> ip address of news.digitalmars.com, all requests time out.
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> So is it just that the server is down?
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Yea, it tends to get overloaded now and then :(

> by the way, thanks for helping me out!!

No prob :)