>Your case is complicated by the local-only newsgroups. One way to
>possibly get around that is to crosspost messages you'd normally send to
>the local-only groups to some other newsgroup...maybe even alt.dev.null,
>or alt.test.
...if you're going to do this, the correct group to
use is misc.misc
Note that some news administrators may filter out
crossposts between local and non-local groups, to prevent
their local groups being filled up with crossposted spam.
-- Stefan