Jerome Fine replies: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!! I set the required access up in Netscape 7.2 and it is functioning well. Much appreciated!!! I thought that it might be useful for others to know that "freetext.usenetserver.com" is available and that it works very well over 95% of the time. As for sending a write/reply, could you please provide a few hints as to how Google Groups work??? Do I require a user id / password, etc.??? Will my write/reply appear in "freetext.usenetserver.com" in the normal manner? ALSO, might there be any other servers which allow write access, even it it is very limited such as a text only post? Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.