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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 23:23:10 +0100
From: D <noreply@mixmin.net>
Subject: Re: Can someone explain what this is all about?
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:54:39 +0200, Quincy the fifth <quincythefifth@telekom.net> wrote:
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>Is there a published obituary we can find more to read about him?

haven't seen anything posted about it . . . perhaps if someone knew
where to look for an obit, a local newspaper or something, the name
"miller" is like searching for a needle in a haystack (smith,jones)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2025+thom+miller+findagrave
>...
>https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/miller/thom
>...

meanwhile, his server appears to have been "hijacked" by who knows,
assuming that the sysop has departed from the world, why would his
novabbs/i2pn2 "rocksolid" server still be operational unless there
really is no one available to push the "off" button... not anybody?

one usenet article doesn't seem like very much to go on ... why no
previous mention anywhere about advanced illness, is that peculiar?

https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/thread.php?group=rocksolid.nodes.announce
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>From: Anonymous@novabbs.org (Anonymous)
>Newsgroups: rocksolid.nodes.announce
>Subject: Re: Error: The connection to the Message Server failed.  Please wait a few
> minutes and try again.     No articles available T (darius)
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:33:29 +0000
>Organization: Rocksolid Light
>Message-ID: <d2d9f95ee00f5ea8628b1c13da758c8e@www.novabbs.org>
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>...
>This is Thom's (Retro Guy) wife Kaylen
>Miller. Thom passed away from pancreatic cancer on Saturday morning
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>Path: ..!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
>From: Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org>
>Newsgroups: rocksolid.nodes.announce
>Subject: Re: It looks like the NovaBBS Usenet server, specifically the
> Rocksolid Light instance, is experiencing ongoing technical is
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:53:11 -0000 (UTC)
>Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
>Message-ID: <b47eaebd3e9c773ee30b2f576642595de2700f55@i2pn2.org>
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>...
>On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:55:57 +0000, darius wrote:
>> It looks like the NovaBBS Usenet server, specifically the Rocksolid
>> Light instance, is experiencing ongoing technical issues. The repeated
>> 502 Bad Gateway (nginx) errors and "Connection to the Message Server
>> failed" messages suggest that the backend Usenet server is either down,
>> misconfigured, or overloaded.
>> Here’s what you can do to troubleshoot and possibly get it back in
>> order:
>> 1. Check If the Server Is Actually Down
>
>That's if sending the same message over and over again saying the same 
>thing over and over again doesn't work.
>> 
>> Try the following steps:
>
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>
>The response was a big "thank you".
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