Hi,

I just learned about Retro Guy's passing. My condolences go to Thom's
family, especially to his wife.

I also discovered that despite having the feed, last posts on rocksolid.*
on my server (news.chmurka.net) are from September 2024. The feed seems to work, but incoming posts don't appear. As I didn't change the
configuration (and I don't know about Thom changing his), I believe
something crashed and nobody discovered it until now.

And, sadly, there's nobody to fix it now.

I think it's a good idea to honor Retro Guy's legacy and continue
providing these groups, but right now I have no feeds for them. So:

1. Does any of my peers carry these groups and is willing to add them to
our list?

2. Is there anyone willing to set up peering of these groups (or even
better, of all hierarchies carried by my server; here's the peering card: http://news.chmurka.net/peering.php)?

Unless you know that Thom's wife decided to wipe these groups (unlikely,
but possible), I'll oblige then.

Thank you.

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On 29.05.2025 12:32 Uhr Adam W. wrote:

I just learned about Retro Guy's passing. My condolences go to Thom's family, especially to his wife.

I also discovered that despite having the feed, last posts on
rocksolid.* on my server (news.chmurka.net) are from September 2024.
The feed seems to work, but incoming posts don't appear. As I didn't
change the configuration (and I don't know about Thom changing his),
I believe something crashed and nobody discovered it until now.

From which servers did you get it?
E-S has it.

And, sadly, there's nobody to fix it now.

I dunno who takes over the servers or if they will just stop when
payment isn't continuing.

Unless you know that Thom's wife decided to wipe these groups
(unlikely, but possible), I'll oblige then.

She posted her mail address, but I have serious doubt she will handle
any Usenet stuff, so I don't think a control message will be posted to
delete it. I also dunno if she has access to the keys anyway, as many
people encrypt such stuff.


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Marco

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On Thu, 29 May 2025 12:32:04 -0000 (UTC), aw@somewhere.invalid (Adam W.) wrote: snip

I also discovered that despite having the feed, last posts on rocksolid.*
on my server (news.chmurka.net) are from September 2024. The feed seems to >work, but incoming posts don't appear. As I didn't change the
configuration (and I don't know about Thom changing his), I believe
something crashed and nobody discovered it until now.

just curious . . . other servers show more recent activity, e.g.
using "news.neodome.net" on port 563, implicit ssl, tor socks 5

Path: news.neodome.net!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Phoenix <phoenix@gmall.invalid>
Newsgroups: rocksolid.nodes.help
Subject: Re: gnu.emacs.gnus: can anyone post to this group?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:55:37 +0000
Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
Message-ID: <cbe8cf0888a10bd7668aa3e7a0eef781daed6d1a@i2pn2.org>
References: <m2a57fkdof.fsf@gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:55:37 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: i2pn2.org;
logging-data="314421"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="scUax2BiJz5nSRMrKFStxq5l4OXosXrCS6gdP7B10WU";
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0
Xref: news.neodome.net rocksolid.nodes.help:1672

not bora wrote:

Someone's saying it's moderated. I made a NNTP post however it's not >>appearing in the group. Thanks

Not moderated. Reading and responding to your post on
rocksolid.nodes.help. Sorry, not an emacs user.

[end quoted plain text]

p.s. also sent "testing 1234 . . ." to news:gnu.emacs.gnus

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Adam W. wrote:

1. Does any of my peers carry these groups and is willing to add them to
our list?

Yes & done. Please add them to your side of our feed, too.

-thh

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On Thu, 29 May 2025 12:32:04 -0000 (UTC)
aw@somewhere.invalid (Adam W.) wrote:

Hi,

I just learned about Retro Guy's passing. My condolences go to Thom's
family, especially to his wife.

I also discovered that despite having the feed, last posts on
rocksolid.* on my server (news.chmurka.net) are from September 2024.
The feed seems to work, but incoming posts don't appear. As I didn't
change the configuration (and I don't know about Thom changing his),
I believe something crashed and nobody discovered it until now.

And, sadly, there's nobody to fix it now.

I think it's a good idea to honor Retro Guy's legacy and continue
providing these groups, but right now I have no feeds for them. So:

1. Does any of my peers carry these groups and is willing to add them
to our list?

2. Is there anyone willing to set up peering of these groups (or even
better, of all hierarchies carried by my server; here's the peering
card: http://news.chmurka.net/peering.php)?

Unless you know that Thom's wife decided to wipe these groups
(unlikely, but possible), I'll oblige then.

Thank you.

8154 rocksolid.feeds.news
838 rocksolid.feeds.tech
118 rocksolid.nodes
143 rocksolid.nodes.announce
rocksolid.nodes.dancingelephants
1466 rocksolid.nodes.help
rocksolid.nodes.retrobbs
53 rocksolid.programming
7 rocksolid.religion
rocksolid.russian.religion
3 rocksolid.russian.talk
rocksolid.shared.dancingelephant
142 rocksolid.shared.encryption
105 rocksolid.shared.entertainment
34 rocksolid.shared.freenet
383 rocksolid.shared.general
91 rocksolid.shared.hacking
54 rocksolid.shared.helpdesk
253 rocksolid.shared.i2p
90 rocksolid.shared.linux
50 rocksolid.shared.news
66 rocksolid.shared.offtopic
rocksolid.shared.retrobbs
10 rocksolid.shared.rocksolid
18 rocksolid.shared.security
rocksolid.shared.tempgroup
250 rocksolid.shared.test
46 rocksolid.shared.tor
47 rocksolid.social
178 rocksolid.spam

I'm still getting articles today in the 'news' group.
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Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

From which servers did you get it?
E-S has it.

Only from i2pn2 (but I also have feed with E-S, I'll ask the admin).

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Thomas Hochstein <news@szaf.org> wrote:

1. Does any of my peers carry these groups and is willing to add them to
our list?

Yes & done. Please add them to your side of our feed, too.

Done. Thanks!

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Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

I'm still getting articles today in the 'news' group.

Thanks Nigel, I updated our feed to contain these groups.

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Adam W. <aw@somewhere.invalid> wrote at 12:32 this Thursday (GMT):

Hi,

I just learned about Retro Guy's passing. My condolences go to Thom's
family, especially to his wife.

I also discovered that despite having the feed, last posts on rocksolid.*
on my server (news.chmurka.net) are from September 2024. The feed seems to work, but incoming posts don't appear. As I didn't change the
configuration (and I don't know about Thom changing his), I believe
something crashed and nobody discovered it until now.

And, sadly, there's nobody to fix it now.

I think it's a good idea to honor Retro Guy's legacy and continue
providing these groups, but right now I have no feeds for them. So:

1. Does any of my peers carry these groups and is willing to add them to
our list?

2. Is there anyone willing to set up peering of these groups (or even
better, of all hierarchies carried by my server; here's the peering card: http://news.chmurka.net/peering.php)?

Unless you know that Thom's wife decided to wipe these groups (unlikely,
but possible), I'll oblige then.

Thank you.

Rest in piece. I really liked having them around :( I hope rocksolid
can still keep going..
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