Re: OT: Is NovaBBS Down for Others?!

On 7/15/25 10:01 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

So, because of the annoying firewall they use at my (soon-to-be-ending)
second job, I can't access Usenet thru ES (or using Thunderbird) when
I'm there.

 

So I've been using NovaBBS instead, which is a web-based front end for
usenet (like Google Groups used to be, before GG when bad, and then...
died).

 

Anyway, over about the past week or two, I increasingly couldn't access
RAT via NovaBBS when I tried:

 

https://www.novabbs.com/arts/thread.php?group=rec.arts.tv

 

I get a "Error: The connection to the Message Server failed." and "No
article available" error messages.

 

And when I try other random groups they have in the "arts" listings, I
usually get the same thing.

 

Can anyone else confirm if they are seeing the same thing when the click
on the RAT link above?

 

(Trying to figure out if NovaBBS is really down, or if I just need to
clear my cache or something... Thanks.)

 Thom Miller died in May. No one is administering it.

OK, well that would explain it. Thanks for the response.
Too bad no one stepped up to take it over. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would be hard to keep up.
Anyway, it looks like I am now out of options to read usenet when I am at my second job. It's a good thing that that job is very likely wrapping up for good for me in August.