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  • Will news.lightlink.com close?

    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to Their website on Tue Jul 18 10:33:03 2023
    Hello!

    Their website says it will close in August:
    http://news.lightlink.com/

    |After 28 years in business Lightlink will be closing at the end of
    |August 2023.

    --
    kind regards
    Marco Moock

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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Tue Jul 18 15:38:15 2023
    Well that sucks.
    Sorry to see them leave now that people is coming back
    On 2023-07-18, Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:
    Hello!

    Their website says it will close in August:
    http://news.lightlink.com/

    |After 28 years in business Lightlink will be closing at the end of
    |August 2023.



    --
    {gemini,https}://{,rek2.}hispagatos.org - mastodon: @rek2@hispagatos.space [https|gemini]://2600.Madrid - https://hispagatos.space/@rek2

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  • From Wally J@21:1/5 to rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid on Wed Jul 19 12:53:56 2023
    rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote

    Well that sucks.
    Sorry to see them leave now that people is coming back
    On 2023-07-18, Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:
    Hello!

    Their website says it will close in August:
    http://news.lightlink.com/

    |After 28 years in business Lightlink will be closing at the end of
    |August 2023.


    What free news server do you recommend to replace news.lightlink.com:119?

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  • From Jack@21:1/5 to Wally J on Wed Jul 19 18:20:00 2023
    On 19/07/2023 17:53, Wally J wrote:

    What free news server do you recommend to replace news.lightlink.com:119?
    paganini.bofh.team:119

    No sign in or registration required but abuse is strictly controlled and
    you could be banned. Don't mess it. The free service is in decline as is
    the newsgroups!!

    There are other free servers but they require registration using your
    email address. They also control abuse rigorously. I don't use any of
    them because I hate to give my email to anybody. Even my friends and
    relations keep complaining that they can't contact me via email because
    they don't have my working email!. they get my phone number because I
    can track their number easily.

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  • From John@21:1/5 to Jack on Wed Jul 19 17:28:13 2023
    Jack <invalid@invalid.net> writes:
    [...] I hate to give my email to anybody. Even my friends and
    relations keep complaining that they can't contact me via email because
    they don't have my working email!.

    A ship in harbor is safe...

    john

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  • From Meow@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 19 17:46:11 2023
    What free news server do you recommend to replace
    news.lightlink.com:119?

    what does this have to do with perring?

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Jack on Thu Jul 20 02:57:45 2023
    Jack <invalid@invalid.net> wrote:
    . . .

    No sign in or registration required but abuse is strictly controlled and
    you could be banned. Don't mess it. The free service is in decline as is
    the newsgroups!!

    There are other free servers but they require registration using your
    email address. They also control abuse rigorously. I don't use any of
    them because I hate to give my email to anybody. Even my friends and >relations keep complaining that they can't contact me via email because
    they don't have my working email!. they get my phone number because I
    can track their number easily.

    The only people who have your email address are you enemies?

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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 20 04:23:56 2023
    According to Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de>:
    Hello!

    Their website says it will close in August:
    http://news.lightlink.com/

    |After 28 years in business Lightlink will be closing at the end of
    |August 2023.

    Not surprising since its owner died a few months ago. Too bad, it was
    one of the last surviving early local ISPs.

    --
    Regards,
    John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
    Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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  • From Adam W.@21:1/5 to Jack on Sat Aug 19 01:30:36 2023
    Jack <invalid@invalid.net> wrote:

    There are other free servers but they require registration using your
    email address. They also control abuse rigorously. I don't use any of
    them because I hate to give my email to anybody. Even my friends and relations keep complaining that they can't contact me via email because
    they don't have my working email!. they get my phone number because I
    can track their number easily.

    Why don't you register your own domain and generate addresses per use? I
    do it and I can easily track and remove spam this way.

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  • From yamo'@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 29 10:29:15 2023
    Hi,

    Marco Moock a tapoté le 18/07/2023 10:33:
    Hello!

    Their website says it will close in August:
    http://news.lightlink.com/

    |After 28 years in business Lightlink will be closing at the end of
    |August 2023.


    Yesterday, the server was not responding and the DNS name was dropped.

    So I dropped the feed I had with lightlink.com

    --
    Stéphane
    Sorry for my bad English

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