I've been checking the group once in a while, but haven't seen much
either.  We had some sad news in the epilepsy community this month.  A
young man, 32 years old, committed suicide.  He was going to help me
with the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho's website.  I was really looking
forward to teaching him to use the tools to design websites.  He was a
very giving person, it's too bad he wasn't able to cope with life.

Take care,
Julie

  They might have had their Primary provider? pull support for
newsgroups.  Rogers Canada decided one night last December that they
were no longer going to support groups, and pulled access on that much
notice. (I remember since I hadn't written anyone about Christmas
approaching, and Winter etc.)
 I have about 30 folders under alt.support.epilepsy to website lists I
used to keep, various people who used to post from 1998 to last Fall,
and messages we used to exchange on or off the Group, and it was after
January before I found this Google link back to here.

   I asked the phone company (in one of the Shopping Malls) if I could
get access to newsgroups if I installed wires across the living room,
or a wireless connect to read newsgroups (using Bell Sympatico here)
and he looked at me like I had 2 heads. "If you don't have access to
Internet Newsgroups on **Cable, what services are they giving you for
$45 a month ? "
 And I guess the answer is 'None'....    I write my son's
Father-in-Law (in Australia) now that we're Grandfathers :-<   (Jacob
is 1 **today)-- and 2 College Chums, who read their Emails about once
each 2 months whether they need to or not (I often Phone them to tell
them they have Mails... ), and both my Kids (married) now send me
Pictures of their Travels plus e.g. Jacob (above)

   But this Cable company no longer provides any useful service, that
I can't get from a Phone line.  Enron in Training-- see how **little
service you can provide for max. dollars and see how long it takes for
your Customer base to all leave and find someone who Can provide
services. //

   When the group got quiet, I usually could pose a generic question,
or Dave or Julie would, and over the next 2-3 weeks others from around
the world would add to the Threads.   Perhaps many of them had Their
providers pull Newsgroups Support also, and they haven't found a way to
get back to here.   **I spent from mid December to Late January this
year, before *I found a way back to here.  Some of the other regulars
may not have had the patience to tinker with that 'geek junk'  to get
here.
 If I hadn't been active here over about 6 years **I wouldn't have
kept looking for ways to read this group, and a UK Astronomy group that
features some of the best Amateur Photos I've every seen-- Saturn,
Jupiter, Galaxies etc. done by 3-4 regulars over there.

 MANY of the other groups had been over-run with trolls and yobs who
didn't share the interests of the groups they were subscribing to. Many
too were being Spammed or Program Harvested via junk-mailer **programs.
  Those who showed up 'here',  were removed over the years--
'someone'   sent their Internet provider the Source Headers with
explanation of why they shouldn't enable junk on a Chronic health group
and why it's bad advertising for them to not keep their customer lists
clean.
   So I don't know if others are still able to read this link, or if
some of the others found other newsgroups or sites to ask questions
that were formerly asked and answered here. *I liked this group, since
it was International- and if you didn't get an answer to a question or
comment right away, you often did within 48 hours as the timezones in
West Canada and US, Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand, Poland, Italy,
Germany, Scandinavia and UK read the posts and offered their
experiences     Gordon /