Mark wrote on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:24:24 -0400:

> James Silverton wrote:
>> I note that a number of posters here have Verizon.net
>> addresses like me.
>>
>> You might like to know, according to a message I have just
>> received, that Verizon intends to discontinue the alt.*
>> groups on its news server on June 24. In addition, the useful
>> ba.food group that was discussed here recently will also go.
>>
> I'd heard about that, too, James. One suggestion that I'll
> offer to Verizon customers with no other Usenet access apart
> from Google is the several free Usenet servers that exist, all
> of which carry alt.food.wine (I think). The one I use (aioe)
> is reliable enough that I haven't even bothered looking into
> Usenet access via my new cable provider (Comcast).Here's a
> small list of the ones that I know of:

> nntp.aioe.org
> drooper.mixmin.net*
> news.motzarella.org
> news.x-privat.org**

> All of these provide posting privileges as well as read
> access. Using them is as easy as turning your existing
> newsreader software to the new server with whatever user
> information you want to provide.

I'm hoping that the response from my congressman is positive and he did
acknowledge my letter. I'm fairly confident of his liberal credentials
but I only have a 50:50 hope of his intervention being efffective..


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not