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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: Admins of borked Usenet providers have vanished.
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 04:40:01 -0000 (UTC)
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Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote at 01:45 this Saturday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote at 01:07 this Saturday (GMT):
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I know this is an old message to reply to, but I just saw it so why not.
>>>
>>> I'm the admin of Rocksolid, etc. When you posted this I was in a medically induced coma following a major surgery that was preceded by another major surgery, followed by 8 months of chemotherapy. There were several months where I could do nothing to administrate anything. (There were weeks that I have no memory of at all).
>
>> Oh no!! Are you alright?
>
> I'm good, thx :) Last test (biopsy) about 10 days ago said negative and I feel pretty good. It's a crazy way to retire early, lol. Note to everyone, you really don't want pancreatic cancer, find something better to have :)

OK good! I wasn't planning to get cancer lol

> I've thought for a while to post something in advance in case I disappear forever so people know to not expect any further administration and when I saw this post I figured, why not just reply here.
>
> Anyway, if all continues as it's going, I may be around for a while longer just to create software bugs and the occasional false positive nocem :)

Cheers!
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