news.btinternet.com - 480 authentication required?

Anyone else on BT Browband getting this?

480 authentication required

Configuration:
Account: news.btinternet.com
Server: news.btinternet.com
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119
Secure(SSL): 0
Error Number: 480
Code: 800ccca4

It was working fine 30 mins ago...

TIA.

On 25 Oct 2006 12:25:12 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

|Anyone else on BT Browband getting this?
|
|480 authentication required
|
|Configuration:
|Account: news.btinternet.com
|Server: news.btinternet.com
|Protocol: NNTP
|Port: 119
|Secure(SSL): 0
|Error Number: 480
|Code: 800ccca4
|
|It was working fine 30 mins ago...

Wait till tomorrow morning when they will have sorted the problem.
--
Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> Google Groups is IME the *worst*
method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a
newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. These
will allow them: to see only *new* posts, a killfile, and other goodies.