thanks for your feed back on my problem with the
news.zen.co.uk line.
The thing what i am trying to do is setup a news server so others can post to any group via simply point there news reader at news.mydomain.net using the default IP port of 119.
or
nntps on port 563 with stunnel.

does this sound ok.

I think I have two choices one through my own news server that comes with my ISP or with news.aioe.org

is there anything more that needs to be done other than install inn2?

robert