Tranquility.net has officially shut down [was: Re: What append with ...]

[John F. Morse]

[Crossposted to news.admin.peering with Followup-To set to
news.admin.peering]


John F. Morse wrote:
> amie wrote:
>> I was connected to tranq7.tranquility.net
>> What append to the server ?
>>
>> No more respond for week NOW !
>>
>>
>> -----------
>> 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.


The answer arrived this morning:

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From: Travis Schumacher <tra...@tranquility.net>


John,

It was a pleasure talking to you yesterday and thanks for all the info.
After digging into this a little more I found out that we decided to shut
down the machine for good.

Thanks again for checking in with us.

Sincerely,

Travis



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John

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