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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