"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ...
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:22:43 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:35:10 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

He's been busy and in addition, lost his newsaccount when Earthlink
collapsed - never replaced it.

Earthlink was still alive and well the last time I checked my credit
card statement.

http://www.earthlink.net/

Well, that was the impression I got from the message - I could be very
wrong. I'm man enough to admit it.

Weren't they bought out by some firm? Let me go look it up.

It would appear I misunderstood or misconstrued his statement. Hey -
it was late and way past my nap time. Important sentence follows:

"I lost my earthlink usenet acct.when embarq took over, so I
quit posting to newsgroups."

Well, in any case, he lost his news link - that's what he told me -
and he hasn't replaced it.

But he's ok - that's the important thing.

When Embarq was offering that $24.95/month high speed connection (for life)
we signed up. For whatever reason, we received free email from Earthlink. (and
alot of other cool/free goodies.) a few months later, Embarq switched all the cool
earthlink stuff to lame embarq stuff, i.e. email change, lame-ass home page, etc.

I would guess we lost the news server as well. I never depended on it anyway.

db