[bioboy]

The news.ntlworld.com and news.cable.ntlworld.com news servers have always required a password in the 5 or 6 years I've been using them. I've always used Grabit and put my ntl username and password into the username and password boxes in the server properties tab.

To be fair I stopped using ntl's newsgroups a year ago since they removed loads of the best groups. I now use Newshosting and get unlimited downloads from all the newsgroups for less than £8 per month. Retention is around 45 days compared to an average of 7 days with VM, they carry all the big binary groups and you can get around 70 days retention if you use NZB files to download. Their completion is far superior too.

Bill