On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:19:15 -0700 (PDT), phaeton wrote:

> I was one of those who lost direct Usenet access when AT&T dropped the
> service. While I miss using an actual newsreader, I haven't yet found
> another NNTP service to belong to. Hence, I am using Google Groups,
> which I know all of you love to pieces. P
>
> A strange side effect is that my first post in any thread shows up as
> being from "phaeton", but any subsequent posts after that show up as
> being from "U.N.". It's not something I planned and not something I'm
> doing on purpose, and I'm not sure why it's happening.

Have you tried calling Google Technical Support?

-sw