Newsportal USENET - Fw: Posted by eternal-september

On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:14:46 +0200, kdog <dogfromhell666@mail2tor.com> wrote:

Check it out:
http://www.eternal-september.org/

(using Tor Browser 13.5.3)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eternal-september.org

eternal-september.org
A private project providing free access to text-only newsgroups. SSL
encryption and a web gateway based on the open source NewsPortal
software, as well as UUCP batches on demand are offered.

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very popular free newsserver, not tor-friendly, requires login, but the
very name of the server & nom de guerre of the sysadmin have provenance . . .

the first occurrence of the phrase "eternal september" is attributed to
john william chambless <chambless@whale.st.usm.edu> in a usenet article
posted wednesday 9 february 1994 00:23:47 UT to "alt.folklore.computers"
under the namesake subject header "the eternal september", which begins:
"here we go again... isn't it lovely that usenet isn't just the 'toy of
the intellectual elite' anymore?" . . . the author of this famous title
(b. 10 april 1959, gulfport) is apparently still living but considering
the unintended "never ending" meme which became the trademark of usenet,
has probably heard more about this quip than anyone could possibly need
(although commercial usenet providers might owe this guy some royalties)

"Motzarella -> Eternal-September" (2009)

(using Tor Browser 13.5.3)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090725122840/http://www.eternal-september.org/

Welcome to news.eternal-september.org
...
2009-07-01 04:54:04 Motzarella servers shut down
As of today, Motzarella.org servers have been replaced by
eternal-september.org servers.
2009-06-30 20:52:37 feeder.motzarella.org has been terminated
All peers who haven't switched to feeder.eternal-september.org yet,
please do so anytime now.
2009-06-29 09:53:00 [Update] Eternal-September online again
Eternal-September is back online ----------------------------------
------------------------------------------ Eternal-September failed
last night with file system error that is currently being analyzed
and will remain offline until 2:00 p.m. CEST. Motzarella servers are
fully operational.
2009-06-16 09:18:55 Motzarella -> Eternal-September
For various technical reasons the Motzarella reader servers
news.motzarella.org, reader80.motzarella.org and
reader443.motzarella.org
will be replaced by the following servers:
news.eternal-september.org reader80.eternal-september.org and
reader443.eternal-september.org
To make the transition as smooth as possible, the
*.eternal-september.org servers are available as of today.
All accounts will remain valid, as well as all registered FQDNs in
the motzarella.org and eternal-september.org domains
2009-05-02 20:59:35 Number of connects per day limited
The number of connections per day and per user has been limited to
1200.
2009-02-03 10:06:35 NNTP access on port 80
NNTP access on port 80 has been moved to the host name
reader80.motzarella.org for technical reasons.

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(using Tor Browser 13.5.3)
https://web.archive.org/web/20061010183828/http://news.motzarella.org/en/index.php

motzarella Usenet News
Server status for Motzarella News servers
Server NNTP Port 119   NNTPS Port 563   Login(LDAP)
news.motzarella.org
news2.motzarella.org
Cleanfeed
Welcome to news.motzarella.org
news.motzarella.org is a private project providing free access to Usenet
News. The server has a 100MBit connection to several Internet backbones
and is integrated into the Usenet via more than 20 peers.
Free access to the news server
news.motzarella.org provides free read and write access to all
newsgroups. It requires a registration that can be done online.
Please read the terms of use before you register.
Hierarchies and Groups
Apart from de.* (including de.alt.dateien.*) news.motzarella.org carries
the Big 8, alt.* (approx. 9000 groups) and several regional hierarchies
(more than 200). A list of available hierarchies can be found here.
For tests, information and support for users of news.motzarella.org the
local hierarchy motzarella.* is open to unregistered users, too.
The local hierarchy posenet.* is also open to unregistered user for
reading and posting.
Peering with news.motzarella.org
news.motzarella.org is looking for additional peers.
Prerequisites: static IP address, availability 24/7
Motzarella.org welcomes news servers looking for their first peering.
Please send email to peering@motzarella.de
UUCP batches
news.motzarella.org offers UUCP Batches on demand.
Please send email to peering@motzarella.de for details.
news.motzarella.org submits path information to the TOP1000 project
daily

(using Tor Browser 13.5.3)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ted+benoit

...
https://en.wikipedia.org
Ted Benoit
Thierry "Ted" Benoit (25 July 1947 � 30 September 2016) was a French
comic artist, graphic novelist and prominent figure in the stylish
Franco-Belgian ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s. His influences
included Edgar P. Jacobs, Moebius, Robert Crumb and to a lesser extend
Jacques Tardi.[1]
Among his works from the 1980s are Bingo Bongo et son Combo Congolais,
a series about aspiring novelist Bingo B. Bongo and his travails; and
Ray Banana, a film noir pastiche. Some of these were published in

^^^ ^^^^^^ cf. <rayban@raybanana.net>

English in Heavy Metal.
Benoit illustrated two books in the Blake and Mortimer series, both
written by Jean Van Hamme: The Francis Blake Affair, 1996; and The
Strange Encounter, 2001. Benoit died on 30 September 2016 at the age
of 69.[2][3]

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16 Sep 24	Fw: Posted by eternal-september	1		D