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

[Stephen H. Fischer]

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.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel DeYoung" <deyoung at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] The CoCo is alive and well, but not here.


> Fantastic!  Thanks for posting the gmane echo info.  For those that are 
> into
> RSS, this means you can read the list with a feed:
> http://rss.gmane.org/messages/excerpts/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
>
> Joel
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Stephen H. Fischer <
> SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It has been quite a long time since a message has been posted to
>> bit.listserv.coco telling anyone interested that we have moved our
>> discussions elsewhere.
>>
>> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>>
>> Has information about the "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" list.
>>
>> The list is echoed to "gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco" on the "
>> news.gmane.org" server.
>>
>> Go To
>>
>> http://news.gmane.org/
>>
>> And enter "CoCo" into the search box and you will find the CoCo list
>>
>> "47007 gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) List"
>>
>> There are several Yahoo groups also.
>>
>> The number of web sites is amazing including: http://www.coco3.com/
>>
>> SHF
>>
>> Note: I posted to "Earthlink news" and it was immediately shown.
>>
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