First, I've missed that the 'ill URL'-message is probably generated by
VSoup. Thus the question comes up to the address of Gerry: what
actual command line parameters are you using?
Second, VSoups nntp command sequence to fetch an article is as
follows (you're trying to get some news from comp.os.os2.announce):
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MODE READER
GROUP comp.os.os2.announce
(perhaps one has now to do authinfo, if the server returned 480:
AUTHINFO USER <yourname>
AUTHINFO PASS <yourpass>
GROUP comp.os.os2.announce
)
XHDR LINES <article-range>
ARTICLE <article-number>
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For each command there will be a response from the newsserver
containing a code and hopefully some readable text indicating success
or failure.
Gerry, your task is no to check it manually via telnet (as suggested).
The other thing you could do is to start VSoup with one single
connection (-t1).
Hardy
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