In article <fb8ti4$fo6$1@aioe.org>,
"Gregory Morrow" <TheKillingOfSisterGeorge@mercycroft.net> wrote:

> Earthlink's server has been "inactive" for about a month, there are no new
> downloads EXCEPT on ba.food and chi.eats...go figger. I can post from EL's
> server, but it's pretty useless not having anything to *reply* to, lol. A
> whiles back I got an announcement from EL about their "new and enhanced
> Usenet service!" but surely that was some kind of joke. Just saw that EL is
> slashing it's workforce in half (from 1900 to 900) and closing a bunch of
> offices, so I'll wait with baited breath on THAT...

I'm using EL right now, and newsgroup access seems to be working just
fine. They did reconfigure their usenet feed recently. Essentially,
they gave up on managing their own server farm. They are now
outsourcing, using Supernews (one of the largest services that
specializes in usenet).

Check your server settings, and make sure you are using one of the
following:

news.west.earthlink.net
news.east.earthlink.net
demonews.mindspring.com
nntp.earthlink.net

All these should resolve to

earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net

The change is mostly an improvement for me. Article retention seems
vastly better than on the formerly-used Earthlink servers. Download
speed appears to be throttled, but the rate limit will probably matter
only to users who download really large binaries.

I have other gripes about Earthlink, and concerns about their
survivability. But newsgroups are not a problem here (Seattle).

--
Julian Vrieslander