On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Paul Hayton wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    PH> On 09/13/14, mark lewis pondered and said...   
    PH>     
    ml> it used to but i thikn the gating system has stopped, gotten    
    ml> broken or otherwise just isn't doing the gating any more...   
      
    PH> I had reports from a user that the feed on my bbs was dried up    
    PH> while on other bbs's he visits there were extra posts... just    
    PH> looking into that now.    
      
   FWIW: it used to come in here with the following tear and origin lines...   
   these from the last post seen from the apparently gateing system in july...   
      
   -!- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp   
    ! Origin: NetKnow News (1:2320/105.97)   
   -!- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux   
    ! Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)   
      
   i've invalidated them for this posting... looks like something happened over   
   at 1:2320/105... i'm not sure what's going on over there on mike's system... i   
   haven't seen or heard from him in a few months...   
      
    ml> yup... but then again, it was kinda boring with the crap posts    
    ml> coming from the usenet side of the fence, too...   
      
    PH> I'm 50/50, there are still some good newsgroups with interesting    
    PH> content, but agree there's a lot with dross in them too.   
      
   agreed... it really is too bad that the alt.* groups became such a   
   wasteland... i mean they were kinda designed for such but then came the mess   
   foisted by at least one person whereby you can't even remove a group created   
   by accident because their system immediately recreates it... someone else's   
   political carp, ya know? [smh]   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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