Rene Lamontagne wrote:

I've had no responses for a few days.

To discuss issues with ES, post in:

eternal-september.support
or
alt.free.newsservers

If their NNTP server is down, you may not get into the first newsgroup
but the 2nd one (Ray monitors that one, too) is carried by other NNTP
servers. You can also use the ES web client to post into the ES support
group at:

http://www.eternal-september.org/WebClient/