On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Paul Hayton wrote to mark lewis:

 PH> On 09/13/14, mark lewis pondered and said...
 PH>  
 ml> it used to but i thikn the gating system has stopped, gotten 
 ml> broken or otherwise just isn't doing the gating any more...

 PH> I had reports from a user that the feed on my bbs was dried up 
 PH> while on other bbs's he visits there were extra posts... just 
 PH> looking into that now. 

FWIW: it used to come in here with the following tear and origin lines...
these from the last post seen from the apparently gateing system in july...

-!- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp
 ! Origin: NetKnow News (1:2320/105.97)
-!- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux
 ! Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)

i've invalidated them for this posting... looks like something happened over
at 1:2320/105... i'm not sure what's going on over there on mike's system... i
haven't seen or heard from him in a few months...

 ml> yup... but then again, it was kinda boring with the crap posts 
 ml> coming from the usenet side of the fence, too...

 PH> I'm 50/50, there are still some good newsgroups with interesting 
 PH> content, but agree there's a lot with dross in them too.

agreed... it really is too bad that the alt.* groups became such a
wasteland... i mean they were kinda designed for such but then came the mess
foisted by at least one person whereby you can't even remove a group created
by accident because their system immediately recreates it... someone else's
political carp, ya know? [smh]

)\/(ark

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