Ignore you - not logical - you are a valuable part of this newsgroup.  All I can
say is there must be some sort of right or left wing conspiracy.

This must explain why at rare times I have noticed a person out of the blue will
have an answer to a thread that wasn't there before.

I'm trying to stay strong, but I do have my moments.
Julie

 Do the first 2 you list above (Google and Yahoo!) Charge anything for
subscribing?  The one I used didn't.   What you do is give your name, email
address, and some other stuff about yourself that *they keep (phone number
possibly and state or province?) .   Then I got a note back within ~5
minutes that had the terms of use, or similar, and clicked 'reply to sender'
with Subject = Accept (or whatever they told me to do when the mail
arrived).  That confirms to them your Email Address, and technically they
now have a Contract from you that you'll not spam etc.  Based on that anyone
who does (send spam) can then be removed for non-compliance.

I forget how I resubscribed (about 3 months ago) after being off for 4-5
weeks.   I think I did a Groups Search under Internet Explorer? for
Epilepsy, it came back with about 2 groups (uk and here), then it said I
needed a Posting Server to post on the group and 'do you  want me to find
one for you?'  -- I clicked Yes, and it came back with about 4-5 ones that
would access alt.support.epilepsy.  I picked one (Don't remember which one--
Possibly a Canadian one), but any messages I post like this one, after I've
clicked File and Send, it does a spellcheck, then my messages appear about
90 seconds after that, quicker during the day when it's quieter here.

    I wondered if you might be able to get rid of Some of the junk that
follows posts here, IF you have Tools that include 'Parental Controls' ??
Chance to be Young at Heart.    I think if you have that through M.soft? it
scans mails for Adult Subjects, Content or words and either Moves it to the
'Parent's Folder' OR discards it, at your option.
   If you're getting a bunch of the Adult mails to Inbox after posting
here, that means the group is still being Robot Harvested from some sites.
Like I said before, *none of the trolls Read these groups, those are Robot
harvested.  That's what "Bill" promised to fix on Windows XP-2 or whatever
he calls the next one.  It's not just  irritating to us, it costs Businesses
Billions per year in lost Bandwidth and Productivity upgrading networks,
filters and programs.

   Another choice, if you have extra email addresses available, is you
could set up a 'New Mark' with some kind of antispam filler (*NOT spam or
nospam as the Asia Robots remove those automatically), but something like
deletethis or extrastuff  in mid-text of the address before you Re-subscribe
under the second ID. (You can still keep the First ID. and compare what you
see on that alt.ep newsgroup vs. the new ID, until you're sure it's reliable
enough.)  I think where you tell the Server your Email, you type the Correct
Second One to them.
  The Filler Junk will defeat the Robo-Harvesters reading these groups for
addresses.   (On one of the 'Geek Groups' I once read, One fellow had his
Email set to Spam@nospam.com <--- so when the Robots picked up his Address,
removed spam and nospam, all that was left was '@.com'  !!   I expect he's
still online there, but that was a good choice at the time for his.)

  Last, do you get any 'user support' from rr.com as a Provider?  (i.e. do
they have a help line or website?)   SOME of the junk I was getting, came
from my Own Provider, so I wondered if the junk you got was ALL from here,
or if some was leaking through from rr dot com if there's a user directory
that someone there might use to find your address.  (I've had my fair share
of junk from there, although not as large a volume as Aol, UUNET or Asia I
mentioned earlier.)    That's Another thing that would show up if you had a
'Second Mark'.  By using one to Only post here, and the other for other
groups, Emails, etc., you'd know that 80% of the stuff might come from
postings.   (I open the headers of junk I get, and if I see 6-8 Rogers
addresses in Alpha order, or randomized, I know they're dictionary attacks
on my provider and not from alt.supp.ep group.)
   There's an earlier post that's sent to this group and about 5 others.  I
forget the sender, but he's on Rogers.  He should be offline later today.
He used a dictionary program to send a Chain Letter junkmail to those sites.
/end. G.

Talking about postings not showing up; I posted a response to one of your recent
messages and I don't see it anywhere.  Vanished.  Gone.

Barb