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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Is NovaBBS Down for Others?!
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

>So, because of the annoying firewall they use at my (soon-to-be-ending) 
>second job, I can't access Usenet thru ES (or using Thunderbird) when 
>I'm there.

>So I've been using NovaBBS instead, which is a web-based front end for 
>usenet (like Google Groups used to be, before GG when bad, and then... 
>died).

>Anyway, over about the past week or two, I increasingly couldn't access 
>RAT via NovaBBS when I tried:

>https://www.novabbs.com/arts/thread.php?group=rec.arts.tv

>I get a "Error: The connection to the Message Server failed." and "No 
>article available" error messages.

>And when I try other random groups they have in the "arts" listings, I 
>usually get the same thing.

>Can anyone else confirm if they are seeing the same thing when the click 
>on the RAT link above?

>(Trying to figure out if NovaBBS is really down, or if I just need to 
>clear my cache or something... Thanks.)

Thom Miller died in May. No one is administering it.