John F. Morse wrote:
> amie wrote:
>> I was connected to tranq7.tranquility.net
>> What append to the server ?
>> No more respond for week NOW !
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>> Allo
> Tranquility has been down for more like two months. Prior to that, it
> had regular weekend failures, probably for a year or so since they
> physically moved their ISP location in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Common
> trouble reports were the disk was full.
> The Tranquility Daily Usenet Report Webserver went dark about three
> weeks ago.
> I have been unable to communicate with Grant Taylor, the last-known
> news administrator, for over two years. His last e-mail reply to me
> was 10/15/2009. I've used his personal e-mail address, plus several
> other addresses at the Tranquility ISP.
> It appears he no longer works there, and perhaps the ISP owners just
> let the news server die from administrative failure.
> OK, I called Tranquility just now and talked to an office employee who
> didn't understand what Usenet was.... http://www.tranquility.net/contact/
> He took my number and a tech named Travis returned my call. He knows
> very little about the news server(s), but said he has helped his
> father in the past, and would inform him about the servers being down.
> He did say that they have only a couple of users who actually use
> NNTP, so there is little if any loss to their income if the servers
> are never restored.
> He was aware that the Webserver was also shut down, and on purpose but
> for other reasons than the Usenet Daily Reports pages.
> Travis also informed me that Grant Taylor no longer works there,
> except for occasional consulting. Grant went to work for "Big Blue"
> and that may be why the news servers were crashing on the weekends.
> Not because of Big Blue, but because Grant was no longer a full-time
> employee, and not there to reboot the servers daily.
> Perhaps Travis' father is also the company owner and no longer cares
> to operate an NNTP server farm?
> I'll let you know more when I hear from them.
