On Tuesday 14 July 2009 05:52, Lesley Robertson ([email protected]) opined: > > "Albert Conklin" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] >> Lesley Robertson wrote: >>> "John Hill" <[email protected]> wrote in message >>> news:1j2okqe.1kkqajsfvcjk0N%[email protected] >>> >>>> I too use Eternal September (and used its previous incarnation, >>>> Motzarella). It does all I need and Ray banana gives excellent >>>> support. >>>> >>>> But it does not host binary newsgroups, and you cannot register using >>>> an AT&T e-mail address. This also applies to other domains handled by >>>> AT&T mail servers such as Bellsouth, SBCGLOBAL, Prodigy etc. >>>> >>> The easy solution to that is to open and use a freebie email account >>> such as Hotmail. >>> I have all my mailing lists on such an account, just to prevent my main >>> one getting clogged up with all the Gatewayed stuff. >>> Lesley Robertson >>> >>> >> Unfortunately or maybe fortunately, Hotmail is not acceptable to all >> other e-mail providers. >> Albert > > We were only discussing problems with AT&T. > There's other free email providers. That's why I said "such as Hotmail". > However, I can't see how it matters whether one email provider approves > of another one. > Lesley Robertson Could it be the time hono{u}red confusion between this as a usenet newsgroup and this as a mailing list gatewayed to usenet? On the one hand, we have the situation Henry and the rest of us have been 'cussin' and discussin', on the other is, well, an entirely different problem which is only exacerbated by the poor reputations of the likes of hotmail, gmail, yahoo and others when it comes to controlling spam or responding positively to reports of spam. Soothing Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have. Thomas Jefferson