Out of curiosity I just switched to news.virgin.net, which is still
there. All the groups have now gone except the virginmdia ones and they
are read only. Presumably some sort of marker for those who are not
aware of the change.

Also noticed that text.news.virginmedia.com appears to be a lot faster
than news.virginmedia.com, certainly as far as retrieving a list of
newsgroups goes.

Alec