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Re: [44net] USENET news on AMPRNet
by Rob Janssen 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

> If you're one of the very few people who have ever taken advantage of > the ability to read USENET news via AMPRNet and the news.ucsd.edu server, > you should be aware that that server is failing from old age and will be > taken out of service soon. We don't plan to replace it; Usenet itself > is fading away. I co-authored the NNTP protocol some 31 years ago; > that's a pretty good run for any internet standard. I wasn't aware that there was any special service from news.ucsd.edu towards AMPRNet... does it carry any special groups other than rec.radio.amateur.*? Fortunately my ISP still maintains USENET servers, two separate clusters even, one for what we used to use for news and another one dedicated to moving large blobs of gibberish :-) Indeed I see your name above RFC977! Great! I once maintained a CNEWS server for a company, which used a UUCP batch feed over a 9600 baud phone modem. The group list had to be trimmed all the time so it would not get behind so much it would never catch up, and the 200MB spool had to be carefully watched as well. Those were the days...

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Re: [44net] New Facebook Group
by Gabriel Medinas 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Greetings, friends, allow me comment on this topic and after having seen all the comments, I would like to express too. Many of us who are already time in the Amprnet understand the rules to be followed by our great friend Brian Kantor as proyect lider who for many years now does much to keep the Amprnet 44 together with many contributions from many other colleagues. Gentlemen, the world has advanced a few years since IRC, Usenet, etc, we are in time to think that social platforms are now important or more than before, more powerful than the conventional ways of communication, and I think, that we should use for Amprnet chat in privately (private group). If the information is more confidential for any reason the social networks are not used, and exits now other routes that are used now. But Facebook, for example, would serve to us as a more "real" link between all the Coordinators and people with whom we can share general information of this activity of this tecnical HOBBY and sure may to grow in friends and should not be confused with our professional activities in this environment. In my case I would like to have contact via Facebook with Brian or any Regional Amprnet Coordinators and have a more relaxed arena to be able to speak general topics of our Hobby. 73 de Gabriel YV5KXE. Venezuela Amprnet Coordinator ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Re: New Facebook Group (Richard Chycoski) *************************************

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Re: [44net] New Facebook Group
by Luc Pernot 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Facebook and else (twitter ...)

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Re: [44net] New Facebook Group
by Rob Janssen 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

> Bandwidth, no data, but it's likely low. Email is a low-bandwidth > application. There are about 700 subscribers. > The entire Mailman installation, including the contents of the archive, > is small, about 200 MB. Most of that is the archive. > You could probably host the whole thing on a Raspberry Pi with a USB > stick, but I wouldn't want to. When you need hosting for that kind of service we can offer a VM on our VMware ESXi 6.0 host in Amsterdam (on 44.137.42.0/27, BGP routed via 44.137.0.0/16). There are 2 HPe Proliant servers each with local RAID-1 disks, a VM image is copied from one host to the other nightly and we can change over manually on catastrophic hardware failure. Offsite backups of the VM images are made as well. It is connected to Internet at 1 Gbit/s and to our radio network at 40 Mbit/s. Network access is via a MikroTik CCR router providing firewall configurable at port level. This is where gw-44-137 runs. Rob

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New Facebook Group
by Jerry 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=net44 Easy enough..

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Pings from the Portal/WWW Server
by lleachii＠aol.com 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

All, I've noticed some pings from portal.ampr.org: > 2017-09-11 17:32:25.846 48.191 ICMP 81.174.235.134:0 -> > 44.60.44.10:8.0 38 3192 1 Is this an automated software pinging? - Lynwood KB3VWG

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Connectivity test
by Chris 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Need a couple IPs on 44/8 that are on the Gateway network and pingable 24/7 (and don't mind me pinging them for test purposes) please... Thanks Chris

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Re: [44net] New Facebook Group
by Rob Janssen 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

> One of the features I like about groups.io When we can no longer run our own services we might as well abandon the entire AMPRNet... Rob

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Facebook
by bill - K7WXW 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Personally, I think Facebook is a terrible choice. User information there is not protected and is monetized. As a discussion forum it is useless. It is ad laden, tracker laden and not user friendly. I don't have a Facebook account anymore and I am not interested in getting one. This forum email list works fine for me. If we need another email server there are several in the amateur radio community to chose from, including TAPR. If we want a commercialized product, there is groups.io which has a large community of ham radio related lists, mostly migrated from yahoo. Just my opinion. 73 de bill K7WXW

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Re: [44net] New Facebook Group
by Rob Janssen 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

> How about we start a second email list to discuss where to have future > discussions? The advantage of a USENET server is that you can create groups for different types of discussion. Clients also typically offer "kill thread" functionality that makes them ignore future postings in the same thread. Rob

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