Freekin' Qwest newserver are, and have been, messed up for weeks..."we know, but we have no estimate of when it will be fixed...our engineers are working on it. If we can be of any other service please contact us...we're here 24/7." HUH? They're there 24/7 and can't fix a server problem?
So it wasn't my machine, or OE, or Mozilla newsreader after all.
I hope the get this fixed because accessing usenet via Google sux.