Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Don" Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,news.admin.peering Subject: Re: Admins of borked Usenet providers have vanished. Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 19:48:22 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: <20230305a@crcomp.net> References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 19:48:22 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="21f928d6105482bad457cbd300cbc3fc"; logging-data="1510559"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1921celGyZDhncmTqM6PblT" Cancel-Lock: sha1:rTcV6NLe0wdrpNN/VVRTXJBKGhA= Bytes: 2254 The Doctor wrote: > In William Stickers wrote: > : Vaniko wrote: > : > > : > Yet another nntp service is borked with no word from its owner. > : > > : > The Rocksolid Usenet / NNTP servers are no longer authenticating to > : > allow posts. > : > > : > There is no word from the admin yet on what is going on. In fact the > : > admin has yet to acknowledge that he is still alive. > : > > : > AIOE went down with no word from the admin for weeks. > : > > : > Mixmin went down with no word from the admin for weeks. > : > > : > Rocksolid went down with no word from the admin for weeks. > : > > : > The admins of these three services have vanished without a trace or a > : > word about their vanishing services. > : > > : > Hmmm.... > : > > : > Why would an administrator make no statement acknowledging the status of > : > a service that has gone down or is broken? > > : You're not owed anything. > : Now stop bleating. > > Surprised to see AIOE as MIA. FWIW unofficial usenet rumor alleges aioe's in process of recovering from a hardware breakdown. Danke, -- Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.