I am alive and well! FYI, the techs at windstream are a pack of clueless nitwits.
I am now posting through eternal-september, even though I am supposed have newsfeed from my isp. According to them the problem must be with my newsreader. If that were the case eternal-september would have spit on me as well. Ijits.
I've only downloaded the last seven days worth of headers. Let me know if I have missed anything important. If anybody asked me something I didn't answer in the month or so prior to the utter failure of my connection, let me know. I might have answered and it just didn't post, I got that a lot right before it completely failed.
NightMist