DETAILS!

OH!! details are so important:

anyone notice in my earlier posting that "telnet nlzero.com" returned:

Trying 209.166.88.53...
Connected to nlzero.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

which is where it sat, uncontrollable!..

well, i just saw it and realized the escape character has never before
been "^]" (instead it was always "^H")

and, when i type "^]" i get:

telnet>

and nothing more (i can't from there issue an 'nlz' and get a user/pass
challenge--what else might i try)...but, at least i can now give 'quit'
and close gracefully ("Connection closed.")..

any new ideas on what might be wrong?? (as apparently it may NOT be a
TCP stack problem as Joanne and Matija thought--especially since
nautilus is now running a RHEL 4 derivative!)

and, how might that problem with telnet relate to not being able to NNTP
in/out??

peace,
DenverD

please disregard my earlier posting in this thread--it was
unintentionally sent here by mistake..

sorry,
DenverD