[Mike Rivers]

On Sep 28, 12:23 pm, Eeyore
wrote:

Sounds like you need a news provider that functions. Verizon would not
appear to fit the bill.

I have an alternate. Google. If you don't want to read postings from
Google, though, you'll probably not know what I said.

A lot of people (old timers mostly) scoff at web based mail and news
readers but I rather like it. It doesn't take up space on my
computer's drive, Google keeps messages around for a long time, so if
someone responds to a thread that's been dead for three years, I can
go back and look at the original message. And it's no less (or more)
reliable than Verizon.

Verizon is just broken at the moment. Probably the reason why it's not
fixed is because you can't find anyone in tech support who will
acknowledge that there's such a thing as Usenet.

We haven't heard from David Morgan in a while. He mentioned using
Verizon and seeing the same problem that I have. Maybe he's fighting
rather than switching. Or maybe he just has something better to do.