Good evening everyone!
This message is intended for informational purposes only.
Mr. Dave Laird has dropped spk.liberty_nw from his rather closed
and dysfunctional news server as of a few days ago. The truth is
folks, we haven't really had any functional NNTP gateway, that
was truly functional, for at least the last two years.
In consequence, I have dropped my personal account (as of
11/06/2005) with usenetserver.com, and will no longer carry
functional messages to or from Liberty Northwest on the
spk.liberty_nw NNTP forum with the exception of my personal paid
account with SuperNews.com. This account does not recognize Dave
Laird's News.Kharma.NET, so I have to assume here we have been
largely misled, and the so-called Kharma.Net has been proven to
be on the USENET backbone, per se, to be entirely on its own
merits, dysfunctional.
Truth is folks, we have had absolutely no dedicated
bi-directional feed from Mr. Laird's system for the previous two
years anyway, so nothing has been lost honestly in this
transaction of events. And, for that, I am sorry, truly sorry. I
was hoping for MUCH better than this, and it didn't happen.
In doing this, I have complied pretty much with Mr. Laird's most
recent request to send him the mail headers, which he received
last night, showing the transcription of my complaints, and in
which he has not replied to this date. Don't hold your breath
either, he probably will not reply since his choice in choosing
what he wishes to address is specifically his own determination,
which has largely skirted the issues at hand anyway.
So folks, we are back again to square one, that is, in terms of
spk.liberty_nw. The Liberty Northwest email discussion group is
still in tact. The spk.liberty_nw NNTP newsgroups is still
foundering as it has since Rocky Seelbach once controlled the
machinics of it all. That was a long time ago, to be sure.
Time goes on. Technology goes on as well. Truth is, we may not
have access or transparency with NNTP any more. Only time will
tell. NNTP hasn't been a huge source of traffic for Liberty
Northwest in any case during the past half decade or so ago. As
was the case with FidoNet, things change a lot over time, and
NNTP may very well fold into the oblivion as well, who knows?
But let me make this perfectly clear. Dave Laird's charade of
hosting a bi-directional feed to NNTP has been a total disaster,
at least for the last couple of years that he advertised to me
that he would host it. I have, of as tonight, cut off my NNTP
feed with USENETSERVER.COM. This also cuts entirely my
connection with Dave Laird's entire NEWS.KHARMA.NET heirarcy,
entirely, since my own remaining NNTP account doesn't support Mr.
Laird's localized groups, which is fine ultimately with me. He
has shown absolutely no interest whatsoever over the past several
years of creating a system that works in the NNTP environment either.
I suggest, that may be the ONLY point I wish to make tonight.
Maybe we have honestly lost "something" in terms of NNTP News.
Maybe not. That isn't exactly a very HOT issue these days in
terms of news - email lists, etc. Without a dedicated gateway,
NNTP isn't likely going to restored for Liberty Northwest anytime
very soon.
Kindest regards,
Frank M. Reichert
Moderator
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