I just got an email from Dave (thanks Dave) and it made me realise that when DH put my new computer together for me he didn't put RCS back into my newsgroups... I thought the list was a little short but I couldn't figure out what was 'missing'! So I hunted and put it back myself just a few minutes ago, and now I've got three weeks worth of posts to read!
The new computer was a bit of a saga - we bought it and it seemed fine but when DH was installing stuff he installed some of the software that 'came with' the computer and it was spyware! Less than a week later we had to reformat it because I was being inundated with popups that wouldn't go away... NEVER put weatherbug on your pc however 'neat' an idea it sounds! Anyway, all is fine now and the biggest casualty was that I lost a week's worth of digital photos of the new kitten and an absolutely GORGEOUS photo session with Scouty because they hadn't been backed up or even uploaded to webshots yet (waaaaah!) Fortunately the best photo of all still survives because DH had made it his background :)