Good afternoon, Frank... Got wool underwear? 8-)
Frank Reichert wrote: > Then how, pray tell, did you get and respond to the message if it > never made it through? My smtp at netaddress.com went down hard > last night and hasn't been up since, so I haven't been able to > send anything out email except to the newsgroups, including > spk.liberty_nw since last night. [An evil snicker] I went to usenetserver.com and simply downloaded the messages which appeared in Liberty Northwest during the time I had my hard drive out on the workbench. > I believe also, that I noticed earlier this morning on the other > machine, downloading via POP3 via netaddress.com that all > messages I sent out on the usnetsever.com server last night > migrated across okay to the email side, although I'll have to go > back and check later today to be sure. They did. > I can't speak to any of that exactly, however I did get a curt > reply from him on spokane.general several weeks back. The only > stuff appearing over there now is a healthy dose of spam > messages, so apparently no one has set up a firewall or security > apparatus to screen out that stuff any more. It used to be pretty > clean once, and almost spam-free, which seems to be no longer the > case. According to spokane.admin, the last time Brian exercised his cancel-bot was back in August of 2004, if I recall correctly. I don't know if that means he isn't serving that function anymore or if it simply is broken. I simply use Cleanfeed to keep my news server clean, as the other way is much too convoluted for my simple (ton) tastes. Once in a great while one or two SPAM messages will creep through, but very seldom. In fact, I can always tell when the news feed is bringing in stuff to spk.* and used_kharma.* because Cleanfeed has a fit cleaning up the undesirable stuff. Of course, the really BIG boys, like webusenet, newsguys and all the other national news servers don't have the inclination nor the processors to clean up news, so that leaves it to the little fish, like me, to keep the news clean. > You've done an outstanding job keeping spk.* alive, and perhaps > growing, and with Bill's gateway from the list side, > spk.liberty_nw is a reasonable alternative for those wishing to > communicate to and from Liberty Northwest from usenet again. > That has been a long time in coming since that interface was > jerked by Rocky many years ago. [positively EVIL grin] Please remember what you just said the next time the damned connection between Kharma and Usenetserver suddenly goes away. Sometimes even I don't understand why it dies, but things happen. Dave -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 11/24/2004 Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net Fortune Random Thought For the Minute You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. -- Saul Bellow _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
