On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:28:07 +0000, William Stickers wrote:

> Grant Taylor wrote:
> {...}
>> Maybe the RAID failure was the straw that broke the camel's back.
>
> More than likely. If he was bringing it back he'd have found a way to
> post something to that effect. His silence is deafening.

Since their MX's still function it sounds like it, or at least notified
their peers, neither paolo or steve have responded to multiple emails
from myself and at least 2 other peers, that alone is very poor showing,
for me, if they dont reply by end of month, I'm removing their feeds, its
only common courtesy to say "hey I got big issues i'll be back when I
can", but neither CBF even doing that.

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:41:02 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:

> none:
>
>> Did he mention the health issue?
>
> No.

That would none of our business anyway, thats a very private thing for
his friends/family only

On 21 Feb 2023, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> posted some
news:63f534b4$1@news.ausics.net:

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:00:24 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote:
>
>> On 2/17/23 2:37 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
>>> RAID failure, recovery takes some time.
>>
>> We're well beyond the time needed to recover from a RAID failure.
>>
>> Perhaps the RAID card itself died and a new one needed to be acquired
>> which needed funding.
>>
>> Replacing a disk, even ordering it, is faster.
>>
>> Restoring from backups on a new RAID is faster.
>>
>> There's more than /just/ a RAID failure.
>>
>> Maybe the RAID failure was the straw that broke the camel's back.
>
> Why does he even have RAID, I recall not only does he just carry text
> groups, he also has stated he has a short (few months) retention period,
> he certainly doesn't need "space"

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

It ain't there for space, 'cept mebbe 'tween yore ears Mr. Eustace Haney.

Redundancy - noun, the state of being no longer employed because there is
no more work available.

Redundancy - technical, the inclusion of extra components which are not
strictly necessary to functioning, in case of failure in other components.
"a high degree of redundancy is built into the machinery installation".

On 21/02/2023 16:52, Incubus wrote:
[cut]
> Thank you!
> Incubus

A lot of time ago I have started to mantain a BBS (and after that) an
usenet server. This server have changed name various time over the
year's past's. In my intentions there has never been a desire for
profit. I did it simply because I liked it.

Over time this pleasure has turned into a duty. I've never felt the need
to know who used my services, but I do statistics. About 67% of my users
are from TOR, another 12% from other anonymization services (eg VPN),
about 8% are from users without authentication, the rest are from
registered users. All my services are free-as-beer. Registered or not.

Usenet (like many other services like BBS) has been in decline for many
years now, and only enthusiasts like me keep its spirit and cooperation
alive, and I'm proud of this, even if ISPs and many other people have
forgotten how it was born internet, and its services, going to much
"cooler" things like Facebook or Instagram.

If users like you are happy and proud to find free services like mine
and being happy this makes me happy and proud in turn. And if spammers
and the like cause trouble, this is not a burden for me to carry.

Thank's to you again.

Sincerely

--
Ivo Gandolfo

On Feb 21, 2023, Ivo Gandolfo wrote (in article
<news:tt3fof$29qtf$1@paganini.bofh.team>):

> About 67% of my users
> are from TOR, another 12% from other anonymization services (eg VPN),
> about 8% are from users without authentication, the rest are from
> registered users. All my services are free-as-beer. Registered or not.

How does someone post to Usenet from TOR?

The only way I know how to use TOR is via the Firefox TOR Browser Bundle.
https://www.torproject.org/download/

Is Usenet posting accessible through the TOR Firefox web browser?
How?

On 21 Feb 2023, Bill W <nothing@nowhere.com> posted some
news:tt3jmk$2a7t4$1@paganini.bofh.team:

> On Feb 21, 2023, Ivo Gandolfo wrote (in article
><news:tt3fof$29qtf$1@paganini.bofh.team>):
>
>> About 67% of my users
>> are from TOR, another 12% from other anonymization services (eg VPN),
>> about 8% are from users without authentication, the rest are from
>> registered users. All my services are free-as-beer. Registered or not.
>
> How does someone post to Usenet from TOR?
>
> The only way I know how to use TOR is via the Firefox TOR Browser
Bundle.
> https://www.torproject.org/download/
>
> Is Usenet posting accessible through the TOR Firefox web browser?
> How?

Couple of ways.

You'll need something like sockscap or SOCAT. Depending on the server
access policy, you may also need stunnel.

If the usenet server permits Tor you can use Tor Browser to provide the
port, 9150 for example. They might also have an onion V3 address to use.

Lots of examples out there how to do it. Best way to keep the usenet
psychopaths from stalking you at work and harrassing your employer.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:38:55 +0000, Sebastian Stan wrote:

>
> RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

really? wow... here I was thinking it was another useless configuration
option when installing new server

>
> It ain't there for space, 'cept mebbe 'tween yore ears Mr. Eustace
> Haney.
>

no idea who that is, must be some _insert_your_country_ injoke think for
teh restr, read on

>
> Redundancy - technical, the inclusion of extra components which are not
> strictly necessary to functioning, in case of failure in other
> components.
> "a high degree of redundancy is built into the machinery installation".

oh wow awesome thank you /chuckles/ you made my day /chuckles again/
here I was thinking configuring those dells raid 1 for OS and raid 10 for
web on alllllllllll those host servers, and raid 1 with 3 disks on all
other servers was just because i was bored /chuckles/

my point being doofus, is it serves no point when you do what he does,
and this past 2 weeks shows exactly that, all it does it make it sound
important, of course one would expect a backup to be available
butapparently not.