I have been using Stunnel to access News Groups at ATT.net to by-pass or tunnel through

ATT's SSL for some time. I have run into trouble and I am getting a message "connection" failed.

At first I thought that it was Stunnel and after deleting and re-installing Stunnel, I an getting the same RESULT. Was there an older version of Stunnel that worked and will the new, updated Stunnel not work or does it need to have some settings changed?