On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:38:16 -0800, "alastair" wrote:

All of a sudden rec.outdoors.fishing.fly has disappeared from my newsgroup
server. Does anyone have any idea what happened to it? Thanks.

Comcast/Giganews nntp service burped a couple of days ago and apparently
exposed yet another weakness in Outlook Express.

Reset your group list and your problem will go away...

/daytripper