On Sun, 25 Sep 2004, Eric Snyder wrote:
Ok, I understand the why and the how GOOGLE is not archiving certain
newsgroups. However, even though GOOGLE is no longer archiving
certain newsgroups, I am now seeing current dated postings to these
same newsgroups. Can you explain to me how this is being done? If
not through GOOGLE, which is free, how is it being done? Is there
another service providing FREE access to these newsgroups? If so,
whom?

Simple. Someone has a misconfigured news server. There should be no posts to
hierarchial markers. Would you post to a newsgroup called "alt"? Of course
not. It's not their fault that some dumb-ass isn't aware of the currently
authorized naming....