Re: mixmin's newsserver - no sysop?

On 22 Jun 2025 09:36:09 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:03:23 -0400, D wrote:

On 21 Jun 2025 22:53:35 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:47:24 -0400, D wrote:

p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes

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how so? I cant italic it, I only use text usenet not this html BS.

 
or 8-bit for that matter . . . and they still allow cross-posting
the relative position of two common phrases quoted in attribution could
appear inadvertent, purely accidental, not clever, socratic

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perhaps, but my intent was emphasis

seems mixmin may in fact be running unattended (like an a.i. "ghost ship")

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:24:11 -0400
Subject: Re: It's Alive!
Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
References: <20250622.171635.389a0556@mixmin.net>
From: SEC3 <admin@sec3.net>
Message-Id: <184bc8f902b96bd0$4501$601102$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>
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On 6/22/25 12:16, anon wrote:

The Mixmin YAMN servers are appearing again.
=======> Getting from disk file at startup:
Stats-Version: 2.0
Generated: Sat 21 Jun 2025 09:10:00 GMT
Mixmaster    Latent-Hist   Latent  Uptime-Hist   Uptime  Options
------------------------------------------------------------------------
dirge        ?11111000000    :16   ?+++++++++++  100.0%
paranoyamn   212121111111    :44   ++++++++++++  100.0%
shalo        222222221112   1:03   ++++++++++++  100.0%  D
middleman    221222121211   1:01   +++++++++++9  100.0%  D
frell        111212221212   1:02   +++++++++++9   99.9%
victor       ?21121112122    :53   ?++++++++++9   99.9%  D
yeahno       ???111121211    :46   ???++++++++9   99.8%  D
lorem        222221212321   1:12   +++++++++++9   99.4%  D
milton       ??2121111121    :48   ??+++++++++9   99.3%  D
yamn4        ????????????  99:59   ??????????00    0.0%  D

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Yes, something definitely changed at Zax's Mixmin VPS server.
Perhaps it got rebooted. By Zax? Unlikely. By a server outage
and then a recovery? Possibly.
In any case here is what I've discovered.
Zax's 2 Mixmaster remailers - banana and slowmix -are alive again
and answering pings. His cpunk remailer Hsub is still dead.
Zax's 4 YAMN remailers - yamn, yamn2, yamn3 and yamn4 are alive
and answering pings. Wellactually yamn4, a middle, is not answering pings.
His Mixmaster pinger and YAMN pinger services can be viewed on his
Website. And they seem to be operating. Hourly updates. But, after so
many months of remailers being dead Zax's pingers don't know of any
current remailer addresses. These pingers need some human to
intervene and to feed them some public remailer addresses. So far that
human intervention seems to be lacking.
Finally, I did get an autoresponse to list@nym.mixmin.net which suggests
that Zax's nym server may be alive and working now.
But I haven't tested it.
--
SEC3

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so the mixmin sysop is being described by a trusted authority as "unlikely"
to be involved with his server's recent return to service from unannounced
and still to date unexplained hiatus . . . the plot thickens, it's bizarre