• Can someone explain what this is all about?

    From Quincy the fifth@quincythefifth@telekom.net to news.admin.peering on Fri Jul 11 15:41:42 2025
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    Can someone explain what this is all about?
    Is it just meaningless spam?
    Or is it real?


    This NNTP server has been compromised.
    The previous administrator is no longer in control of this system.
    For the safety and integrity of your network, you must immediately
    remove all peering and trust relationships with this server.
    Do not accept any further traffic or posts from this system.
    No further information will be provided.
    This Message will be posted every hour.
    Login: i2pn2.org:8991 user: novabbs.org pass: 9923315
    Post ID: e4ec3361-4268-49cc-ae57-e6fd77ceaf32
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  • From Marco Moock@mm+solani@dorfdsl.de to news.admin.peering on Fri Jul 11 16:15:06 2025
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    On 11.07.2025 15:41 Uhr Quincy the fifth wrote:

    This NNTP server has been compromised.

    Probably true as the php software has vulnerabilities.

    The previous administrator is no longer in control of this system.

    True, as he is dead.

    For the safety and integrity of your network, you must immediately
    remove all peering and trust relationships with this server.

    Bullshit, because if the remote is under attacker's control, your
    system must not be affected of that - or it has a really bad design.
    --
    kind regards
    Marco

    Send spam to 1752241302muell@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de

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  • From Quincy the fifth@quincythefifth@telekom.net to news.admin.peering on Fri Jul 11 14:36:24 2025
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    On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:15:06 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:


    This NNTP server has been compromised.

    Probably true as the php software has vulnerabilities.

    The previous administrator is no longer in control of this system.

    True, as he is dead.

    Is that Retro Guy who is dead?


    For the safety and integrity of your network, you must immediately
    remove all peering and trust relationships with this server.

    Bullshit, because if the remote is under attacker's control, your
    system must not be affected of that - or it has a really bad design.

    Thanks for explaining that part.
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  • From Marco Moock@mm@dorfdsl.de to news.admin.peering on Fri Jul 11 22:58:25 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On 11.07.2025 14:36 Uhr Quincy the fifth wrote:

    On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:15:06 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:


    This NNTP server has been compromised.

    Probably true as the php software has vulnerabilities.

    The previous administrator is no longer in control of this
    system.

    True, as he is dead.

    Is that Retro Guy who is dead?

    Yes, this was his pseudonym in usenet and often also mail.
    --
    kind regards
    Marco

    Send spam to 1752237384muell@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de

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  • From Quincy the fifth@quincythefifth@telekom.net to news.admin.peering on Sat Jul 12 17:54:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:58:25 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:


    Is that Retro Guy who is dead?

    Yes, this was his pseudonym in usenet and often also mail.

    That's too bad. As I recall, he set up beautiful web-searchable no-account needed Usenet web archives of text newsgroups when GG stopped updating.

    https://tinyurl.com/news-admin-peering https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/news.admin.peering https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering

    Doing that service for us after GG went offline was very nice of him to do.

    https://tinyurl.com/nova-news-admin-peering https://www.novabbs.com/usenet/thread.php?group=news.admin.peering

    Is there a published obituary we can find more to read about him?
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  • From Kyonshi@gmkeros@gmail.com to news.admin.peering on Sat Jul 12 18:15:11 2025
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    On 7/12/2025 5:54 PM, Quincy the fifth wrote:
    On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:58:25 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:


    Is that Retro Guy who is dead?

    Yes, this was his pseudonym in usenet and often also mail.

    That's too bad. As I recall, he set up beautiful web-searchable no-account needed Usenet web archives of text newsgroups when GG stopped updating.

    https://tinyurl.com/news-admin-peering https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/news.admin.peering https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering

    Doing that service for us after GG went offline was very nice of him to do.

    https://tinyurl.com/nova-news-admin-peering https://www.novabbs.com/usenet/thread.php?group=news.admin.peering

    Is there a published obituary we can find more to read about him?

    I remember there was something on alt.obituaries on him a few months ago
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  • From Marco Moock@mm@dorfdsl.de to news.admin.peering on Sat Jul 12 20:43:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On 12.07.2025 17:54 Uhr Quincy the fifth wrote:

    Is there a published obituary we can find more to read about him?

    Message-ID: <5730c9bd846adf9291c095caae65b6c8@www.novabbs.org>

    This claims to be his wife.
    kaymillsy@gmail.com
    --
    kind regards
    Marco

    Send spam to 1752335679muell@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de

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  • From noreply@noreply@mixmin.net to news.admin.peering on Sat Jul 12 23:23:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:54:39 +0200, Quincy the fifth <quincythefifth@telekom.net> wrote:
    snip
    Is there a published obituary we can find more to read about him?

    haven't seen anything posted about it . . . perhaps if someone knew
    where to look for an obit, a local newspaper or something, the name
    "miller" is like searching for a needle in a haystack (smith,jones)

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2025+thom+miller+findagrave
    ...
    https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/miller/thom
    ...

    meanwhile, his server appears to have been "hijacked" by who knows,
    assuming that the sysop has departed from the world, why would his novabbs/i2pn2 "rocksolid" server still be operational unless there
    really is no one available to push the "off" button... not anybody?

    one usenet article doesn't seem like very much to go on ... why no
    previous mention anywhere about advanced illness, is that peculiar?

    https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/thread.php?group=rocksolid.nodes.announce >Path: ..!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
    From: Anonymous@novabbs.org (Anonymous)
    Newsgroups: rocksolid.nodes.announce
    Subject: Re: Error: The connection to the Message Server failed. Please wait a few
    minutes and try again. No articles available T (darius)
    Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:33:29 +0000
    Organization: Rocksolid Light
    Message-ID: <d2d9f95ee00f5ea8628b1c13da758c8e@www.novabbs.org>
    References: <28807a7b690147183be59687537e75e7@www.novabbs.com> >Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; ..="usenet@i2pn2.org";
    ...
    This is Thom's (Retro Guy) wife Kaylen
    Miller. Thom passed away from pancreatic cancer on Saturday morning
    [end quote]

    Path: ..!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
    From: Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org>
    Newsgroups: rocksolid.nodes.announce
    Subject: Re: It looks like the NovaBBS Usenet server, specifically the
    Rocksolid Light instance, is experiencing ongoing technical is
    Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:53:11 -0000 (UTC)
    Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
    Message-ID: <b47eaebd3e9c773ee30b2f576642595de2700f55@i2pn2.org>
    References: <44044644bcf466ce0737daa302cb6c29@www.novabbs.com> >Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; ..mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org";
    ...
    On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:55:57 +0000, darius wrote:
    It looks like the NovaBBS Usenet server, specifically the Rocksolid
    Light instance, is experiencing ongoing technical issues. The repeated
    502 Bad Gateway (nginx) errors and "Connection to the Message Server
    failed" messages suggest that the backend Usenet server is either down,
    misconfigured, or overloaded.
    HereAs what you can do to troubleshoot and possibly get it back in
    order:
    1. Check If the Server Is Actually Down

    That's if sending the same message over and over again saying the same
    thing over and over again doesn't work.

    Try the following steps:

    snip

    The response was a big "thank you".
    [end quote]

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  • From Quincy the fifth@quincythefifth@telekom.net to news.admin.peering on Mon Jul 14 07:10:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:43:39 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:


    Is there a published obituary we can find more to read about him?

    Message-ID: <5730c9bd846adf9291c095caae65b6c8@www.novabbs.org>

    This claims to be his wife.
    kaymillsy@gmail.com

    https://al.howardknight.net/ https://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3C5730c9bd846adf9291c095caae65b6c8%40www.novabbs.org%3E
    https://www.novabbs.com/rocksolid/thread.php?group=rocksolid.nodes.help https://rocksolid.nodes.help.narkive.com/

    From: Anonymous@novabbs.org (Anonymous)
    Newsgroups: rocksolid.nodes.help
    Subject: Re: What's going on with =?UTF-8?B?bm92YWJicz8=?=
    Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:30:51 +0000
    Organization: Rocksolid Light
    Message-ID: <5730c9bd846adf9291c095caae65b6c8@www.novabbs.org>
    References: <20250416134010.0000345f@yahoo.com> <0426aef2205045d9e88b6292806b9a28@www.novabbs.com>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    User-Agent: Rocksolid Light

    I don't know how this works. This is Thom's (Retro Guy) wife Kaylen
    Miller. Thom passed away from pancreatic cancer on Saturday morning
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