Hold on to your news servers

Sun Nov 15 16:05:44 UTC 1998

On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 09:32:43AM -0600, Doug Davis wrote:
> > Yes.
> > 
> > The only messages this server will emit will be cancels, and it will emit
> > them only to those who DELIBERATELY peer with it.
> 
> Okay for the $20,000 question, is anyone peering with it now who
> doesn't know that they are?   In other words are you planning
> on migrating an existing system for this purpose or are
> you planning to provide a *new* service in which people
> could peer with?

I neither own or control ANY *CURRENT* news servers.

This is a NEW service, operating on hardware which will be purchased
specifically for this purpose by a non-profit organization set up 
explicitly to do this and other public-interest Internet-related things.

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Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give
up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.