If you want to test to see if News is functioning, type 'go hot' which takes you to the Lynx version of ccn.hot-topics. OR you can test any newsgroup that way by typing the url for the newsgroup: 'gnews:rec.arts.tv' (without the quotes) If it works in Lynx, it will work in tin (go news) too. If it does not work in Lynx then you can abort the attempt by typing either a lower-case z or ^G (Control-G)