Re: Is this group dead?

John Tyson wrote:
> "Mark & Steven Bornfeld" <bornfeldmung@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message

> news:PO3ui.1826$Aj6.22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> John Tyson wrote:
> 
>>> Nah, it's just Earthlink again! (They "improved" their newsreader last

>>> week.)
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> Maybe that's why I'm having trouble connecting to earthlink's news
server 
>> at home with thunderbird.
>>
>> Steve
>>
> It's possible.  My problem wasn't that I couldn't connect (although that
can 
> be a problem at times), just that no new messages were coming in for a 
> couple of days.  This happened a few months ago. and I couldn't get 
> newsgroup messages for about a week (talk about withdrawal!).  After 
> googling "Earthlink newsgroup problems" (always guaranteed to get you
some 
> hits) I discovered other people having problems, and one of their
solutions 
> was to change the newsgroup server to some "mindspring.com" server.  I
tried 
> that for a while (it basically seemed to work), but went back to 
> "news.east.earthlink.net" and that also seems to still be working.  My
final 
> solution was to unsubscribe and resubscribe to all my newsgroups.  But
since 
> your problem is connecting in the first place, that's probably not going
to 
> help you very much.
> 
> John 
> 
> 

	Just connected with no problems--maybe they fixed something.  I was 
using news.earthlink.net, then switched to news.east.earthlink.net--both 
seem to work.

Thanks,
Steve