"tom c" wrote in message
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"Anthony W" wrote in message
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I got an eMail from Verizon this morning saying that they are dropping
their news server.


alt.free.newsservers before they pull the plug. I use
http://www.eternal-september.org/ like Ron with good results. AIOE is ok
but has had weeks long down time in the past. There are also some decent
low cost usenet providers.

Agreed, although I have not yet seen fit to go with the low cost route--even
though some of them do provide coverage of some additional text groups that
Bellsouth, ATT, and presumably Verizon used to carry--in addition to the
binary groups.

In any case, I singned up with both Eternal-September and AIOE a couple of
months ago and have had results similar to yours--with an interesting twist:
Earlier in this thread, I had a "senior moment" and posted that I was
pleased using Eternal-September, which is quite true; but AIOE is adjacent
on my news server list in an effort to provide redundancy and I happened to
be using it at the moment that I posted. Interestingly, the post appeared
for about a day before being deleted. It no longer appears on either server
and was probably deleted everywhere that is connected in the normal manner
of UseNet. The way that I found out what must have happened was by looking
for it on Google-Groups, where it does still appear, and where the error is
plainly visible--you don't even need to use the "view original" option.

Peter