We are currently investigating reports of authentication errors for customers attempting to access our news servers.

Initial investigation of the problem suggests that it is related to the back end work Giganews completed earlier today following their recent acquisition of Supernews:-
http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/03/27/notice-for-users-of-plusnets-usenet-service/

We have raised a case with Giganews and will provide further details as they become available.

Kind Regards,

Bob Pullen
Customer Support