If you are finding that NetNewsWire doesn’t update your feeds like it should be and when you open /Applications/Utilities/Console you see a bunch of lines like:

2005-02-24 15:54:24.679 NetNewsWire Lite[371] HTTP download error -- Domain: POSIX Type: error code: 32 -- URL: http://feedster.com/links.php?url=http://www.intencha.com/adrian/&type=rss

and you’re using Privoxy try changing the proxy settings from using localhost to using 127.0.0.1.  Doing so will also fix a problem where Internet Exploreron OS X can’t connect to any sites despite the fact that Safari can connect successfully.

Now I might go try the NetNewsWire 2.0 beta again since I think this was the problem that was causing me to not see a huge bunch of new items that I should have seen.