Anyone who uses the Official HPC NewsGroup will likely have noticed that it has been running slowly recently that combined with the fact that it's being SPAMMED into oblivion & thing's haven't been rosy on the internet's oldest HPC resource. This is a universal problem on Microsoft's news server. Microsoft are currently working on the problems, however have said they need to clear the back-archive of older ports (Usually 60 days worth in a NNTP client) down to 30 days worth.
Anyone who wishes to browse older posts will now have to visit Microsoft Communities.