yea, he used to have his own news feeds, but now they have shout wire with big fonts and stupid news junk. He posted that he wasn't gonna update it anymore too. sala aalchi! but still, its a pretty good search for IRC and packetnews is not that bad, but i get more results from ircspy than packetnews. and they have their own software, so if you don't want mIRC then you download their software, and download thru their software, without opening up mIRC. which is pretty cool, i tried it once, but i rather see "you have been placed on queue #111000, rather than staring at small program and try to figure it out!