• Usenet technical difficulties

    From Lord Time@TIME to All on Mon Feb 1 22:56:58 2016
    from my bbs mail :

    Darkrealms is currently experiencing a rare technical difficulty with
    providing access to certain Usenet groups in Fido *.PKT format. The problem
    is at the provider level; in fact it appears to be an issue that may be affecting several Usenet/NNTP providers.

    A system, or a group of systems, is distributing posts dating back to the
    year 2003 in certain Usenet forums. The nature of the distributed backlog
    of posts is simular to a Fidonet system with a misconfigured mail tosser
    or BBS software. At this time, it is somewhat difficult to track the
    origin of these message "dumps".

    When Darkrealms downloads messages in those affected groups, the message last-read count jumps to hundreds, sometimes millions of messages. Several times I have had to intervene to stop the mass-downloading, but most times
    it has already been too late; a few gigabytes of mail has already been processed by the system and sent out to some downlinks.

    If you are Areafixing Usenet groups from Darkrealms and receive a message
    that the request cannot be honoured due to security violation; it is
    likely I have temporarily ceased access to those affected areas.

    I trust that this setback is temporary; please stay tuned for updates.

    Nick



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