On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:17:00 -0500, Dan White wrote:
This is a hoax that comes up occasionally, according to an AOL employee. It
was mentioned on another newsgroup.

I don't know, I've seen the same thing come up from several respected
members of several groups I'm in. Either they all got the same virus
all at once or something, or it's legit this time.

Even still, news.individual.net should work for anyone with any
kind of network connectivity, unless AOL goes out of their way
to block that port. So, even if you keep AOL for dialup, you can
still get Usenet....and with a better user interface to boot.