From: John Cuccia 

On 15 Dec 2003 08:11:14 GMT, Winston Smith
 wrote:
>From what I glean, the ElfLords play games with Barktopia's backbone to
>choke it off, and the Sysop's node is popping in and out of the master
>nodelist table like a pogo stick.  I wonder if the politics is effecting
>the feed?  You could always poll direct for mail exchange.  Hmm...  is it
>worth messaging the Sysop about?

Why not just grab a free newsreader (Free Agent, for one, if you are
running a Windows variant) and point it at news.barkto.com.  That
eliminates the middleman and whatever kinds of petty politics infect the
remnants of Fidonet.

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