IF YOU CAN'T ACCESS THE NEWSGROUPS
NOTE: You should not get a page where it ask you for your username/password.

1. Refresh/Reload the page.
2. Wait until the page is fully loaded,
you can see this in the status bar.
3. Try access again !

Still Not Working ??
The following solves this issue in 99% of the cases!

Following are the settings that
should be configured within IE6....

1. Refer to the Privacy tab within
Internet Options.

2. Make sure security is set to Medium
and not higher, and then click Advanced.

3. This will provide the cookies-related
settings, and within it you'll want to select:

- Overide authentication cookies
- "Enable" for first-party cookies
- "Enable" for third-party cookies
- Select always allow session cookies.

You might have to close all of your browsers windows and start it again.
Then get back here and try to access again!