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Re: Low traffic

From Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Low traffic
Date 2025-04-30 03:39 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:00:07 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2025-04-28 23:17, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I don't know if it's my setup or if there has been a disturbance in
>>> the Force. A.F.C is the only newsgroup I subscribe to that usually has
>>> significant traffic, but the last week or so there has only been a few
>>> posts on the "General Thoughts" thread. I use Eternal September as a
>>> news server and I just installed a new system and switched to Pan as a
>>> newsreader. Is Usenet finally dying?
>> 
>> Nah, no more than a decade ago, two decades ago. I'm also on Eternal
>> September.
>> 
>> Ob-AFC: Remember when when SMTP just, yew know, worked?  Now, in
>> addition to several standardized additions to SMTP -- DKIM, SPF inter
>> alia -- too technical for my pay grade [1], MTA operators are now
>> inserting a mixed bag of DNSBLs, filter bots that make discriminatory
>> inferences from RDNS and whois etc.  MTA operators contract with third
>> parties to insert these filter services or email admins roll their own
>> version or combinations.
>> 
>> That leaves a humble user such as I to negotiate with my own ISP's
>> possibly impenetrable "support" or to hunt down individual ISP admins
>> or contracting filterbot admins and persuade them to install a
>> whitelist entry or otherwise find a workaround for email that evokes a
>> 5xx bounce.
>> 
>> [1] I'm not an IT pro, just a retired artist blacksmith.  It's
>>      happenstance and personal idiosyncrasy that I know enough about
>>      IP, SMTP etc. to write this.  I suppose less fortuitously informed
>>      people just hit and become embedded in a wall of penc?
> 
> People just give up and embrace Google mail.

A lot of stuff has migrated off usenet to groups.io (and I assume possibly 
other places).

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Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-04-28 14:59 +0000
  Re: Low traffic Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-04-28 17:33 +0000
    Re: Low traffic "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-04-28 20:21 +0100
      Re: Low traffic Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> - 2025-04-28 19:00 -0600
        Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-29 19:18 +0000
          Re: Low traffic Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-04-29 19:24 +0000
            Re: Low traffic John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-29 12:58 -0700
              Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 01:39 +0000
                Re: Low traffic John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-30 08:49 -0700
                Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 20:09 +0000
            Re: Low traffic "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-04-29 22:41 +0200
            Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 01:36 +0000
              Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-04-30 09:14 +0000
                Re: Low traffic songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2025-04-30 06:16 -0400
                Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-04-30 15:06 +0000
              Re: Low traffic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-30 13:25 +0000
                Re: Low traffic Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-04-30 16:21 +0000
                Re: Low traffic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-30 17:25 +0000
                Re: Low traffic Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-01 04:45 +0000
              Re: Low traffic Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2025-04-30 20:17 -0700
            Re: Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-04-30 03:36 +0000
              Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 19:59 +0000
  Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-28 20:18 +0000
  Re: Low traffic "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-04-28 22:33 +0200
  Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-04-28 18:17 -0300
    Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-29 20:00 +0200
      Re: Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-04-30 03:39 +0000
        Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 20:00 +0000
      Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-05-01 02:52 -0300
  Re: Low traffic songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2025-04-28 18:01 -0400
    Re: Low traffic Thomas Prufer <prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid> - 2025-04-29 08:17 +0200
  Re: Low traffic Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:33 +0000
  Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-29 20:14 +0200
    Re: Low traffic John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-29 12:06 -0700
    Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 01:22 +0000
      Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-30 08:43 +0200
        Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 20:28 +0000
          Re: Low traffic Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-01 04:45 +0000
          Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:12 +0200
            Power plant cold start (Re: Low traffic) Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-01 20:57 +0000
            Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 01:23 +0000
              Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-05-02 19:01 -0300
                Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 05:59 +0000
        Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:23 +0200
          Re: Low traffic Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-01 21:22 +0100
        Re: Low traffic Thomas Prufer <prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid> - 2025-05-02 21:02 +0200
      Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-04-30 09:13 +0000
        Re: Low traffic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-30 13:23 +0000
          Re: Low traffic Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-01 17:52 +0100
            Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:13 +0200
      Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-05-01 03:13 -0300
        Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-05-01 14:48 +0000
          Re: Low traffic Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-01 20:50 +0000
        Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-05-01 14:52 +0000
        Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:37 +0200
          Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 01:27 +0000
            Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-02 23:10 +0200
              Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 05:47 +0000
                Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-03 14:02 +0200
                Re: Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-05-05 22:25 +0000
              Re: Low traffic anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-05-15 15:12 +0000
        Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-01 20:48 +0000
          Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-05 17:36 +0000
            Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2025-05-05 17:48 +0000
              Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2025-05-05 17:58 +0000
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-05-05 20:20 +0000
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-05 22:55 +0200
            Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-05 18:53 +0000
              Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-05 23:15 +0000
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-06 02:10 +0000
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-06 11:35 +0200
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-06 10:40 +0000
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-06 12:59 +0200
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-06 12:14 +0000
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-06 14:27 +0200
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2025-05-06 13:43 +0000
                Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-06 18:38 +0000
    Re: Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-04-30 03:41 +0000

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