Usenet has been down ever since early on Sunday, 18 March 
2008.  

    WHERE ARE MY NEWSGROUPS!  I WANT MY NEWSGROUPS! 
    GIVE ME MY NEWSGROUPS *NOW*!!!  
    
I'm getting WAY behind on my reading. 

    

    While I'm complaining, you really ought to replace the
insulting message on your "upgrade page" with:  

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    Competent Web designers are expensive and hard to find,  
Disk space is cheap, and some of the browsers that can read 
our cobbled-together website are free.  Therefore, we can 
keep our service fees down by asking some of our customers 
to keep a special browser just for communicating with us.  
Here is a list of browsers that work with our website, some 
of which you might find acceptable for regular use.  
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