Hi! Björn,   
      
   In a message to yourself, you wrote:   
      
    BF>    Does anyone of you, with Russkie telnet clients handy, have better   
    BF> luck? 8-)   
      
   Nope, no such luck...   
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   Fri Mar 09 16:28:21   
   [//Dell560/home/paul]telnet news.region14.us 119   
   Trying ::ffff:209.181.245.141...   
   Trying 0.0.0.0...   
   telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused   
   Fri Mar 09 16:28:49   
   [//Dell560/home/paul]telnet vtdl.net 119   
   Trying 216.66.97.101...   
   telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out   
   Fri Mar 09 16:29:40   
   [//Dell560/home/paul]   
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   :(   
      
   BTW, telnet ought to work from your Windows-anything command prompt too.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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