» I see you're using the new Windows-native setup kit. :-) I just downloaded it yesterday.. the first "setup kit" that I found. Other than that I don't know what exactly a "native setup kit" is. Is there other installers I could try?

» I don't see this behavior. Here's the output I see when I eval the » form in a *scratch* buffer: » » (open-network-stream "test" "TEST" "news.inet.fi" "nntp") » #<network connection "test" ("nntp" . "news.inet.fi") state:run> This is pretty much what I get on my Solaris station at the office. Definitely not what happens at home. » It looks like you downloaded some packages in this session. If you » stop and restart XEmacs, can you reproduce the problem? Does the » problem occur in a -vanilla XEmacs? Yes, problem persists. I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything a couple of times and rebooted too. I installed Xemacs on my win XP since I decided to start reading news with Gnus at home too and that's how I noticed the problem: Gnus froze, port forwarder showed that NNTP server responds, and CPU-usage went sky high. I do not know what expression "vanilla" means.