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

"Albert Conklin" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Lesley Robertson wrote: > > 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 Perhaps not, but the newsgroups do not have concern about which ISP is used to access them. Henry

"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