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Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 2003 16:32:40 PDT7
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: problem with access to newsgroups

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Denny:

I have a dumb question: Are you accessing Verizon.NET via dial-up or DSL? If DSL,
that's surprising since Fullerton/Placentia is SBC, I thought.

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:39:18 PDT7, Zdenek Jizba wrote:

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> Early this year I was actively commenting
>to a thread in the alt.astronomy newsgroup.
>My connection to my ISP (verizon) was through
>the Fullerton phone line. One day for an unknown
>reason I was unable to either read any newsgroup
>nor write to one using news.verizon.net. However
>other news servers worked fine. Switching to
>a different phone line in Placentia corrected the
>problem --for a while. Then again suddenly I was
>unable to access verizon news servers. I contacted
>verizon, and eventually was connected with the
>server specialist. He informed me that my problem
>would be fixed within days. That was two months ago.
>I am unable even today to access any newsgroup
>thru the Fullerton or Placentia phone lines.
> Today I added a german news server:
> newscache0.freenet.de
> With it I am again able to read the alt.astronomy
>newsgroup. When I attempted to submit a message
>to this newsgroup, however, verizon message was
>that it was unable to do so. Is there anyone
>who can help me out to resolve this issue?
>By the way the message that I was trying to
>send to alt.astronomy is listed below:
>____________________________________________
>(The header is: "another what if)
>
>What if governments have been aware of the
>existence of Alien visitors (with bases on Phobos
>and Eros). What if it is impossible to reveal that
>knowledge because then the aliens would also
>find out? What if there is an intensive inter
>governmental effort to develop secret defenses
>against the very remote likelihood of these Alien's
>invasions?
>
> Zdenek (Denny) Jizba
>
> P.S.: If the objects on Eros and Phobos are
> indeed alien artifacts, in my opinion they may
> have been abandoned millions of years ago.
>
> (For some background information on the sources
> of these questions go to: http://groups.google.com/
> and search for: jizba eros
> By the way, the header "erotic images" is NOT
> my doing. Someone else replaced my original
> header for that thread.)
>
>
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