From: me@privacy.net 
  
 jackweso@email.msn.com (brojack77@my-deja.com) wrote in 
 news:7cebf3d2.0403061803.44970968@posting.google.com: 
  
 > Boomer  wrote in message 
 > news:<404a0810$0$200$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>... 
 >> jackweso@email.msn.com (brojack77@my-deja.com) wrote in 
 >> news:7cebf3d2.0403060800.79db02c5@posting.google.com: 
 >> 
 >> > The server news.east.earthlink.net hasn't been functioning 
 >> > since March 1 and the responses from support are contradictory. 
 >> >  Anyone know the truth?  Whom should I contact at earthlink if 
 >> > support is clueless? Thanks, Jack 
 >> 
 >> Hi 
 >> 
 >> Have you read through your local EL groups? 
 > 
 > [snip] 
 > 
 > No, But I could find no mention of the problem at the EL web 
 > pages. Someone in a consumers' group advised me to use the west 
 > server and it worked.  Should have thought of it myself, but 
 > support didn't suggest it.  On the contrary, their responses were 
 > clueless.  One thought I was talking about email.  Another told me 
 > that they have no way of telling what is wrong with newsservers. 
 > They seemed not to care.  At any rate, the east server was up and 
 > running again as of Saturday afternoon. 
 > 
 > Thanks, 
 > Jack 
  
 Glad that you got it straightened out.  :) 
  
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