[Coco] OT Re: The CoCo is alive and well, but not here. (Bit.Listserv.CoCo was original post)

[timothy male]

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--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
> Subject: [Coco] OT Re:  The CoCo is alive and well, but not here. (Bit.Listserv.CoCo was original post)
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 12:13 PM
> Hi,
> 
> Gee, it was worth the extra time to provide a meaningful
> test message to bit.listserv.coco instead of just "TEST",
> and posting it to the main CoCo list.
> 
> Five minutes after I made the post to this list I realized
> that the title perhaps should have been changed, but then
> realized that more people would perhaps read it.
> 
> Some people will receive the original post on
> bit.listserv.coco, some will not.
> 
> What I think has happened is with the ending of Usenet
> support by some big ISP's, the propagation of messages has
> become uncertain.
> 
> So there may now be several (many) Usenet islands that only
> exchange messages between themselves and not one Usenet as
> in the past where most messages were available on all Usenet
> feeds.
> 
> Willard said:
> > Of course, the way USENET's dying, this may just mean
> that's when someone upstream of me shut off their USENET
> stream, or the listerv->USENET gateway went down.
> 
> And John said:
> > The newsgroup is chartered as an official mirror of
> the mailing list, and since the mailing list is no more, it
> is possible that the operators of the bitnet news server
> could discontinue the news group at any time.
> 
> But perhaps ISP's like EarthLink (One of the biggest) are
> operating with no connection to bitnet at all and also could
> discontinue the news group at any time.
> 
> It would be interesting to hear if anyone not on EarthLink
> received my bit.listserv.coco post.