On 20 Jul 2008 03:10:11 GMT, "DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2008-07-19, William Bagwell wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:49:35 -0400, Wes wrote:

Sure wish Harrold would come back to the group.

He may still be lurking. Our ISP has a broken usenet feed and when he
posts I'm about the only one who can see them. (I'm posting through
another server)

Pass on to him the suggestion that newsguy could be worth the
cost to give reliable news service. A lot of the big ISPs are totally
dropping news servers -- afraid of being considered responsible for
child porn occasionally posted in the alt.binaries.* newsgroups. :-(

If Harold does not pop up in a few days, I will send a heads up that
r.c.m has been asking about him. Not sure Newsguy would be at the top of
my recommend list though. They were my very first NSP way back when, but
they irritated me with their sickly sweet yet totally fake politeness.
Still plenty of free text only servers at the moment.

I can't exchange e-mail with him either, based on past
experience.

It could happen. TDS once blacklisted one of Earthlinks mail servers in
the Atlanta data center. My own brother could not reliably email me
until I set up a special address just for him on another domain.
--
William