Re: Admins of borked Usenet providers have vanished.

candycanearter07 wrote:
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Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote at 01:07 this Saturday (GMT):

Vaniko wrote:
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Yet another nntp service is borked with no word from its owner.

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The Rocksolid Usenet / NNTP servers are no longer authenticating to
allow posts.

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There is no word from the admin yet on what is going on. In fact the
admin has yet to acknowledge that he is still alive.

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I know this is an old message to reply to, but I just saw it so why not.
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I'm the admin of Rocksolid, etc. When you posted this I was in a medically induced coma following a major surgery that was preceded by another major surgery, followed by 8 months of chemotherapy. There were several months where I could do nothing to administrate anything. (There were weeks that I have no memory of at all).

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Oh no!! Are you alright?

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I'm good, thx :) Last test (biopsy) about 10 days ago said negative and I feel pretty good. It's a crazy way to retire early, lol. Note to everyone, you really don't want pancreatic cancer, find something better to have :)

I've thought for a while to post something in advance in case I disappear forever so people know to not expect any further administration and when I saw this post I figured, why not just reply here.
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Anyway, if all continues as it's going, I may be around for a while longer just to create software bugs and the occasional false positive nocem :)