I get pretty regularly blocked from tilde's nntp (pretty much every time Comcast flickers and we get a new IP address) but this business of timeouts reaching the server at all is new. Is all of Comcast under interdict, or am I just stuck in a block with a bunch of bad actors?
(Not much choice of ISP in South Jersey. And I love you tilde but I'm not setting up a VPN just for you.)