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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <vus61v$3davg$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vuo555$3hm82$1@dont-email.me> <871ptc6l57.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> <7mg7elxk22.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> |
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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