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  • Araknet USA Hub...

    From Martin Kazmaier@1:340/1101 to All on Wed Sep 3 14:24:00 2025
    I messages Smooth via facebook messenger a month or so ago and was told that funnelweb.net had a major hardware meltdown and would need to be replaced entirely. I offered to donate for hardware but didn't hear anything back. I haven't heard anything since. Does anyone know what's going on? I posted regularly to this net and kept some traffic going, but can no longer connect. Is there an alternate hub I could use or something? I'm in Idaho, USA.

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  • From Craig Hendricks@1:226/18 to Martin Kazmaier on Thu Sep 4 16:41:53 2025
    Re: Araknet USA Hub...
    By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Wed Sep 03 2025 02:24 pm

    I messages Smooth via facebook messenger a month or so ago and was told that funnelweb.net had a major hardware meltdown and would need to be replaced entirely. I offered to donate for hardware but didn't hear anything back. I haven't heard anything since. Does anyone know what's going on?

    I think you know more than (or as much as) anyone else at this point. Speaking for myself, this is the first I heard about the hardware failure, and it certainly explains a lot about why the network is in the state it's in. All his sites & BBSes have been down for a long time as well.

    Bummer.

    I posted regularly to this net and kept some traffic going,
    but can no longer connect. Is there an alternate hub I could use or something? I'm in Idaho, USA.

    I checked a several prominent ArakNet nodes, and none of them have a new networked post after June.

    I think it's done-zo. :(

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  • From Jeff Kocuipchyk@1:154/50 to Martin Kazmaier on Fri Sep 5 23:03:46 2025
    too bad it wasn't more open and available on more BBSes, maybe it would still be running. I'm in Canada and never got "approached" to join so that's a loss for me and my BBS users.

    Hope he can figure it out.

    J
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