the mirror crack'd

grady grady at ibiblio.org
Wed Jan 24 21:37:32 EST 2007


Thanks for the vote of confidence, perhaps misplaced. We can't go back 
to using UNC's news server, but then we wouldn't want to anyway, since 
the whole reason we stopped using it was because their news feed was 
leaky & slow & generally sucked.

I just turned something else on. About to find out if it works . . .

Ross


James Hepler wrote:
> Thanks Ross for continuing to work on this stuff. 
> It's pretty awesome.
> 
> 
> 
> --- grady <grady at ibiblio.org> wrote:
> 
>> So, those of you who read ch-scene via email may
>> [not] be surprised to 
>> learn that sometime in the past month or so, the
>> mirror between the list 
>> and alt.music.chapel-hill halfway broke, in the
>> sense that stuff posted 
>> to the list still flows to the newsgroup, but stuff
>> posted to the 
>> newsgroup is no longer flowing to the list. I am
>> lame, so I didn't 
>> notice this until today. Sorry.
>>
>> The gateway that we've been using for the past
>> umpty-zillion years (so 
>> long that I can't find any of my original
>> correspondence with the people 
>> who set it up, although I at least know who they
>> were) is/was operated 
>> by a private company that's in the UseNet business
>> (a strange bidness to 
>> still be in in 2007, no doubt). It's possible that
>> they turned off this 
>> free service, or maybe it just broke & needs to be
>> fixed.
>>
>> I sent 'em an email; we'll see what they say.
>>
>> In the meantime, I have attempted to fall back to a
>> possibly 
>> less-reliable gateway that may or may not still
>> exist. Still waiting to 
>> see if anything shows up via it. Not holding my
>> breath.
>>
>> If both of these projects fail, then I'm going to
>> have to put on my 
>> thinking cap. I'm not really optimistic about the
>> possible outcome of 
>> that, so let's hope one of the first two options
>> works.
>>
>> Bottom line: until further notice, if you're hoping
>> to get a relatively 
>> complete picture of what's being discussed, you're
>> going to have to 
>> either visit the NNTP server of your choice, or go
>> here: 
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.chapel-hill
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience. Please feel free to
>> post suggestions, 
>> useful or otherwise.
>>
>> xo
>>
>> Ross
>> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
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>>
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