You are no longer on the Earthlink news server. Look at the header
of your message, and you'll see that you are using Supernews. Earthlink
outsourced their Usenet service, and are to shut down their old farm
very soon.

news.east.earthlink.net & news.west.earthlink.net redirect you to
Supernews.

news.earthlink.net still points to the soon to be shut down server farm
that Earthlink ran for several years.

There is one more name that redirects you to supernews, but I can't
remember it at the moment.

You might want to subscribe to the Earthlink only newsgroup at:
news:earthlink.support.usenet where the changes and updates are being
discussed.



Bingo!
I had news. without east. or west.
Mine just turned off a few weeks back.



Michael, thanks so much for the link.



Richard