Allo,  Sean.

 SD> Shawn shut down his NNTP server evidently because people were
 SD> complaining that it supposedly didn't conform to some RFC (which is
 SD> funny since RFCs aren't always "binding"). His BBS is up
and running
 SD> just fine.

	Tiny has pipped up here in the last days, he is still with us. I got on
his BBS on a GUI screen, there is not much activity there that I could see.
I had no problem connecting NNTP to him.

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