Re: Ping AIOE - Ping Mixmin - Both services down for days.

On 2/1/23 16:02, Paul wrote:
> On 2/1/2023 3:57 PM, Mork wrote:
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: Re: Ping mixmin regarding NNTP
>> Newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks
>>
>> On 2/1/23 01:57, Jason Evans wrote:
>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:27:14 -0600, McGruff wrote:
>>>
>>>> When attempting a test connection to news.mixmin.net I get:
>>>>
>>>> 400 Interrupted system call writing creating overview file -- 
>>>> throttling
>>>> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> It looks like the last message processed, was Jan.27 or so.
> 
> It didn't make a fuss when I sent a test message,
> but it also didn't do anything with it.
> 
>     Paul

I posted several test messages to mixmin at the outset. Some never 
appeared in the feed. Two of them appeared a couple days later.

I have no idea how to contact the admins of these servers. If I did know 
I would offer to help sort out the issues.

It would be nice if dizum and the others allowed client posting instead 
of just remailer posts. Both mixmaster and yamn are a huge pain in the 
rump. I stopped using them a long time ago.

Now that Tor is ubiquitous just using a client over Tor is anonymous 
enough for me. I'm just trying to keep trolls and cranks from getting my 
IP. I don't care if the spooks are watching, because they always are 
watching.

We need more open Usenet servers. I can't set one up because I don't 
have time or reliable Internet access to administer one. Otherwise I 
would spin up a couple VPS nodes and do it. I'm so far out in the sticks 
that Internet can go down or bog down for days, and we're the last on 
the list to get fixed. We just endured a power outage of 4 days. I don't 
want to offer a service that is highly unreliable.