🚀 go-pugleaf

 Bob Izenberg wrote: 

> Is AOL free?  If the original poster's complaint was that
> the service for which they are presumably paying is a bad
> value because it has poor Usenet propagation, and that a
> free service which the poster has attempted to use has
> policies that prevent her from so doing, then why did the
> poster not pursue one of the other avenues available to
> anyone with the coins to spend on Internet service
> providers?

Please re-read what i wrote. I don't need or use gatewayed
e-mail-to-usenet services. I have no usenet propagation problem with AOL.
I was trying to send a test message for a friend (whose ISP did have a
propagation problem) through the UT gateway to see if HE could access an
usenet newsgroup that way. I just wanted to help him out by geting some
information for him. The reason that i got ticked off was that i thought
the test had *failed*. Had i gotten a bounced mail message, i would have
known that i could not MAKE the test from my domain. Some of you folks
know enough about logic to understand why a dispositive result can be as
valuable as a positive one and why it is annoying to get a report that
seems dispositive but turns out to be simply...the void. 

catherine yronwode