News Server
Mark Morley
On Tuesday afternoon we experienced a massive power failure when a BC Hydro
transformer blew up and took out several city blocks. This managed to
corrupt the drive on the news server where articles are stored. We ran
file system checks at the time that appeared to correct the damaged areas,
but early this morning we found that the corruption was more severe than
we initially thought.
Unfortunately the only way to fix this was to reformat the entire drive,
which obviously deletes any and all articles from the news server. Backing
up the articles is simply not feasible, although I did backup the ISLAND.*
articles and restored them afterwards.
Normally I'd schedule something like this so you'd know it was coming, but
the file system corruption was rapidly spreading, making entire directories
(hierarchies) of articles inaccessible. When it suddenly couldn't create or
access articles under "alt" I felt it was better to just do it now and get
it over with.
Mark
Hendrik
Mark Morley <ma...@islandnet.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday afternoon we experienced a massive power failure when a BC Hydro
> transformer blew up and took out several city blocks. This managed to
> corrupt the drive on the news server where articles are stored. [...]
> Unfortunately the only way to fix this was to reformat the entire drive,
Hi Mark,
just in case the consequences of this accident inconvenience some people
more severly: which other public news server can one directly access
with newsreader software via Islandnet? (I presume that in order to read
DejaNews one needs to use a web browser?)
Thanks: Hendrik
Jonathan Berry
In article <1d5gm16.14b...@i2-26.islandnet.com>,
hen...@islandnet.com (Hendrik) wrote:
: which other public news server can one directly access
:with newsreader software via Islandnet? (I presume that in order to read
:DejaNews one needs to use a web browser?)
Not really. You need a terminal program or telnet. Just log
in and at the home prompt type ww. You'll be in lynx. When the
screen comes up type g (as in Goto) and then
http://www.dejanews.com/
This gives you the glories of dejanews without the annoying
banner ads.
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cheers,
Jonathan
Mark Morley
Hendrik (hen...@islandnet.com) wrote:
: just in case the consequences of this accident inconvenience some people
: more severly: which other public news server can one directly access
: with newsreader software via Islandnet? (I presume that in order to read
: DejaNews one needs to use a web browser?)
I'm not aware of any public ones that allow you to post, as that's an open
invitation to spam. There are a few (very few) that will allow you to
read news. Off the top of my head I don't know the addresses of any
though. A web search for "public nntp server" should turn up something.
Mark
Steve Pridgeon
Mark Morley said:
It's very fast and has about 25,000 groups. It's probably the current
pick of the open NNTP servers.
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Steve Pridgeon
In-home or office computer tuition and problem-solving
Finder of lost files, healer of delinquent drivers.
Email ste...@islandnet.com
Hendrik
Jonathan Berry <jbe...@islandnet.com> wrote:
> :(I presume that in order to read
> :DejaNews one needs to use a web browser?)
>
> Not really. You need a terminal program or telnet. Just log
> in and at the home prompt type ww. You'll be in lynx.
Hi Jonathan... by my reckoning LYNX is a web browser :-)
> This gives you the glories of dejanews without the annoying
> banner ads.
Yes, that's certainly an advantage!
Thanks: Hendrik
Hendrik
Mark Morley wrote:
>I'm not aware of any public ones that allow you to post, as that's an
>open invitation to spam.
Makes sense. Reading incoming news is mostly what will be needed in the
case of a problem like the one you had mentioned - one can send messages
either from here or via Eudora...
Steve Pridgeon <stevep-sp...@islandnet.com> wrote:
> Try www.lingue.unibo.it
>
> It's very fast and has about 25,000 groups. It's probably the current
> pick of the open NNTP servers.
Thanks, guys!
ttyl: Hendrik
Jensen
You can read from dvibm3.gkss.de but there is no posting allowed.
They also may not have all the groups you want to read.
cheers,
jen
Mark Morley wrote:
>
> Hendrik (hen...@islandnet.com) wrote:
>
> : just in case the consequences of this accident inconvenience some people
> : more severly: which other public news server can one directly access
> : with newsreader software via Islandnet? (I presume that in order to read
> : DejaNews one needs to use a web browser?)
>
> I'm not aware of any public ones that allow you to post, as that's an open
> invitation to spam. There are a few (very few) that will allow you to
> read news. Off the top of my head I don't know the addresses of any
> though. A web search for "public nntp server" should turn up something.
>
> Mark
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