wrote:
I did some extensive research and it is true, the alt. hierarchy will
not be carried by several providers. Unfortunately these are "major"
carriers so many users won't have access to this NG or even know about
(who cares about those ****in home moaners anyhow).
This puts me and my newsgroup alt.hvac into a dilemma.


You can still access them from free news servers. If you google for
"free news servers" you will find a number of them, and there are others
that have minimal annual changes.

And if you are truly desperate, there is always *holding nose* Google
Groups.