rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (01/12/88)
Disclaimer: I left Mirror for political reasons, but still like most of the individuals there. I'm not trying to embarrass anyone, but I think the information in Brian's note is interesting and needs wider distribution. Mirror's newsfeeds are a little strange and scattered throughout the US (a hold-over from when I and mod.sources was there, and everyone wanted to talk to us/me :-), so I added news.config to the newsgroups line and put a USA distribution on. In ne.news (<224100005@prism>), brian@mirror.TMC.COM writes: >[ He is leaving and Mirror will no longer be carrying some newsgroups, but > he don't know which ones. ] >For this reason, I am encouraging the sites that we feed { datacube, ishmael, >rayssd, otto, ileaf, hpwala, beldar...} to find other sites to receive their >info from since I cannot assure any level of reliability after my departure. The long-distance sites will probably want to just drop mirror. They are all News-only, so they should be able to pick up from somewhere else without too many problems. I don't think Mirror is the primary feed for anyone calling from out-of-state. Those sites might also want to consider Stargate or UUNET, for example. There are two sets of downstream Boston-area sites: News sites, and notes sites. One of them who wants to still get a full feed (including talk, alt, and inet, I believe) should contact Brian and arrange to take over the services mirror now provides. It should be a notes site willing to act as a news/notes gateway. If one of the news sites does it, then the notes folks will lose out. The changes can of course be made without contacting Brian or anyone at Mirror: just find out who their primary feed is and yank the rug out. That's very anti-social, however, and I don't recommend it. Reading between the lines, I would not be surprised to see both the ".TMC.COM" and ".ZONE1.COM" domains no longer be supported/maintained within a couple of months. It'll be interesting to see what happens, tho, as I expect there's no real way to decommission a domain yet. Out of fairness, I should point out that Brian's note says he expects mail service to remain unchanged. All this just goes to reinforce how dependent Usenet is on dedicated individuals and sites with bucks and cycles to spend. PS: If any of the affected parties wants a hand setting something up, drop me a line; you might have to prove that you don't do drug tests and/or slip me a few bucks and/or buy me dinner. :-) /r$ -- For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net. "I once had a line of my own in seismo's sendmail.cf"