IDLE has suddenly become FAWLTY - so should I be hitting it with a big stick, or what?

[Twirlip2]

On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 01:51:20 UTC+1, Terry Reedy  wrote:
> On 8/26/2014 7:29 PM, Twirlip2 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:20:56 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence  wrote:
> >> Another lesson is that google grops is crap [...]
> > You read my mind! (See parenthetical note at end of my most recent post.)
> You can access python-list (and a few thousand other tech lists as an 
> nntp newsgroup via news.gmane.com. If you check headers, you will see 
> that this is what I (and many others) do.

That sounds good, and I'd like to try it (tomorrow!), but:

"Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at news.gmane.com.
Check the address for typing errors [...]"

Sorry if I've just done something silly again.

Must ... sleep ...