On 8/16/2022 2:18 AM, Ant wrote:
> In alt.online-service.earthlink Retired wrote:
>
>
>> On 8/15/22 9:34 PM, Ant wrote:
>>> On 8/15/2022 3:46 PM, Retired at Home wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> FWIW, Years ago I dropped ELN's NNTP , and went with GigaNews
>>>>>> direct for $5 / month.
>>>>>> ELN is still my main e-mail provider.
>>>>>
>>>>> How much is your ELN e-mail service without NNTP? I only still have
>>>>> it for old e-mails and NNTP. :/
>>>>
>>>> Last Sept my annual prepayment was $59.40
>>>
>>> Huh? I didn't know they had annual payments. I pay every month! I
>>> don't see that option in my account.
>
>> Not sure but I suspect my "e-mail only" account is a legacy BYOA account
>> that they don't offer anymore. My access now is via my daughter's
>> Xfinity cable service. Been ELN customer since about 2000 when they
>> acquired Mindspring (who earlier acquired Rocky Mountain Internet, my
>> first ISP)
>
> Interesting. I signed up for EarthLink's dialup in 1998.
I was handed off to Mindspring dialup in 1998
by my previous ISP when they went out of
business and remained with them when they
were acquired by Earthlink. Switched to
their cable service through Time Warner
in 2010 but was still billed (at a better
rate) through Earthlink. When Spectrum
took over TWC in 2017 they wouldn't let
me keep that arrangement but still offered
Earthlink at a higher price. Late in 2020
they dropped Earthlink service and Earthlink
did not have an alternate delivery method
my area so I had to take Spectrum Internet
and in order to keep my Mindspring address
of 22 years I signed up with Earthlink for
e-mail service (including Usenet). They
did offer an annual prepayment option
which I took and renewed last November at
$47.40; if they don't now show it on the
website as an option you might have to
call and ask a support person for it.
Meantime, back to the topic at hand, Usenet
was down from Friday until mid-Monday. We
had a similar outage last year; seems the
relevant techs don't work weekends. It's
back up but keep asking me to log back in
repeatedly. I haven't heard of Earthlink
dropping Usenet; don't call and give them
any ideas (I doubt the person Pyotr spoke
to is a source authority on company policy;
presumably if they had dropped it we
wouldn't still be posting here).