From: "taxman." <taxman10m AT mediaone DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [PGCC] Technical snafu with beastium-list
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:08:50 -0500
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is PGCC for DJGPP dead?  Last time it was updated was
May 98 I think.

Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net> wrote in message
news:3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990203205212 DOT 008aa710 AT pop DOT netaddress DOT com...
>I've noticed abnormally low (i.e. nonexistent traffic) on the beastium list
>for a while. With a PGCC question, I posted to it recently and it bounced
>with "user unknown"! This explains the low volume: nobody can post.
>To get this error corrected, I contacted the postmaster AT desk DOT nl and the
>reply was:
>
>>I've send severall email to the list administrator of beastium-list about
>>other people using this list for spamming. But ive never seen any reply's
>>thats why i've closed the list.
>>
>>Let the administrator contact me, so we can discuss this problem.
>
>It looks like there has been some kind of massive failure of communication.
>Somehow mail to the beastium administrator stopped going through, then the
>list was unilaterally terminated by the postmaster of desk.nl, whereupon
>all the requests for information undoubtedly generated by list users have
>somehow been vanishing or something. I think the PGCC people listen on this
>list/newsgroup, hopefully someone who can do something to fix the problems
>of the beastium-list will see this message.
>
>Although how the list administrator can have the list vanish out from under
>him and not notice, is beyond me.
>--
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