Michael L Gueterman wrote: > Goetz (et. al), > > My ISP has recently made changes to their UseNet service part of > which bit the gateway last month. In looking into this problem, > it turns out that they have also imposed a monthly bandwidth > allocation which we have exceed. I'm currently working on > getting this issue resolved at least temporarily so the gateway > can resume, but for the long run we've decided to stop providing > the service. > EDIT has been happy to provide the gating function between > HP3000-L and the comp.sys.hp.mpe newsgroup for quite a while > now, but all of the events of late have made us take a hard look > at continuing. For those of you that don't know, EDIT merged with > Integrated Information Systems (i2s) of Louisville KY last year > (yes I know the websites are woefully out of date and don't > mention the merger, I'm working on it :). The main focus of the > newly merged company has been in the Manufacturing and > Analytics area and not necessarily having a lot to do with the > 3000 anymore (that's one of the reasons I've not been as active > in the MPE world as I once was). Given that up until recently the > gateway was very low maintenance, it wasn't a problem to simply > let it chug along. Given the recent events though, it's time to take > a step back and let someone else take it over. > > So, I'll see what I can do to get things back up for the moment, > but can someone please contact me in the next few days who > would be willing to take over? If you want to run the existing > software (it is a mixture of a small Cold Fusion template and a > third-party NNTP dll) I'll give it to whomever, but I'm sure there > are newer/better methods available. If I don't hear from anyone, > then I'll stop the gateway at the end of the month. So since there's been "radio silence" ever since you posted this, I guess that means the end of the gateway service between comp.sys.hp.mpe and 3000-L ? or has anyone picked this up ? It would be a real pity if the comp.sys.hp.mpe newsgroup becomes an "unvisisted data island" so much before EOS. I am not sure how many other folks are currently using the Usenet variant of reading & contributing, but speaking for myself, going back to individual emails is not an option. I may try to watch by using mail digest mode, but it certainly raises the bar of doing actual postings/replies, because the digest is not threaded. sigh ... but thanks for keeping the service up until now anyway, it has been very helpful for me and many others (not only @hp). Goetz * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *