| Sysop: | Amessyroom |
|---|---|
| Location: | Fayetteville, NC |
| Users: | 27 |
| Nodes: | 6 (0 / 6) |
| Uptime: | 46:27:15 |
| Calls: | 632 |
| Calls today: | 3 |
| Files: | 1,187 |
| D/L today: |
24 files (29,813K bytes) |
| Messages: | 176,483 |
i've never used mixmin's newsserver for posting, but while it's still available that active link shows 39371 y /5812 m /6 n, 45189 in total,
and not only plaintext newsgroups, since "alt.binaries.*" for example,
shows 2567 y /50 m, 2617 total (low retention, neodome is more active)
it does seem odd that no announcement has been made about the sysop's whereabouts for three months and counting (steve crook, zax, is world
famous in the anonymous remailer community) . . . another well-known
sysop whose unexpected departure was confirmed thom miller, retro guy of novabbs and i2pn2 (rocksolid) news servers, their announcement was made
and confirmed within a couple of days . . . but three months and not a
peep from anyone anywhere? that's mighty "damn peculiar"jtk/lhm
On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:11:47 -0400, D wrote:
i've never used mixmin's newsserver for posting, but while it's still
available that active link shows 39371 y /5812 m /6 n, 45189 in total,
and not only plaintext newsgroups, since "alt.binaries.*" for example,
shows 2567 y /50 m, 2617 total (low retention, neodome is more active)
it does seem odd that no announcement has been made about the sysop's
whereabouts for three months and counting (steve crook, zax, is world
famous in the anonymous remailer community) . . . another well-known
sysop whose unexpected departure was confirmed thom miller, retro guy of
novabbs and i2pn2 (rocksolid) news servers, their announcement was made
and confirmed within a couple of days . . . but three months and not a
peep from anyone anywhere? that's mighty "damn peculiar"jtk/lhm
There is no rule that says we have to post, I can go for 6 to 12 months >without saying boo.
There is often this damn nuisance thing called "a life" that often gets
in the road :)
there was only weeks ago no route to host on mixmin, it was fixed within >hours though by our alert systems, now whether that was Steve doing >emergency maint, or a network path in between us that doesnt have
redundant routing and it took it out, who knows.
p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:47:24 -0400, D wrote:
p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes
how so? I cant italic it, I only use text usenet not this html BS.
On 21 Jun 2025 22:53:35 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:47:24 -0400, D wrote:
p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes
how so? I cant italic it, I only use text usenet not this html BS.
or 8-bit for that matter . . . and they still allow cross-posting
the relative position of two common phrases quoted in attribution could appear inadvertent, purely accidental, not clever, socratic
On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:03:23 -0400, D wrote:
On 21 Jun 2025 22:53:35 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:47:24 -0400, D wrote:
p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes
how so? I cant italic it, I only use text usenet not this html BS.
or 8-bit for that matter . . . and they still allow cross-posting
the relative position of two common phrases quoted in attribution could
appear inadvertent, purely accidental, not clever, socratic
perhaps, but my intent was emphasis
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:47:24 -0400, D wrote:
p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes
how so? I cant italic it, I only use text usenet not this html BS.
On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:03:23 -0400, D wrote:
On 21 Jun 2025 22:53:35 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:47:24 -0400, D wrote:
p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes
how so? I cant italic it, I only use text usenet not this html BS.
or 8-bit for that matter . . . and they still allow cross-posting
the relative position of two common phrases quoted in attribution could
appear inadvertent, purely accidental, not clever, socratic
perhaps, but my intent was emphasis
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:24:11 -0400snip
Subject: Re: It's Alive!
Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
References: <20250622.171635.389a0556@mixmin.net>
From: SEC3 <admin@sec3.net>
Message-Id: <184bc8f902b96bd0$4501$601102$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> >...
On 6/22/25 12:16, anon wrote:
The Mixmin YAMN servers are appearing again.
=======> Getting from disk file at startup:
Stats-Version: 2.0
Generated: Sat 21 Jun 2025 09:10:00 GMT
Mixmaster Latent-Hist Latent Uptime-Hist Uptime Options ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dirge ?11111000000 :16 ?+++++++++++ 100.0%
paranoyamn 212121111111 :44 ++++++++++++ 100.0%
shalo 222222221112 1:03 ++++++++++++ 100.0% D
middleman 221222121211 1:01 +++++++++++9 100.0% D
frell 111212221212 1:02 +++++++++++9 99.9%
victor ?21121112122 :53 ?++++++++++9 99.9% D
yeahno ???111121211 :46 ???++++++++9 99.8% D
lorem 222221212321 1:12 +++++++++++9 99.4% D
milton ??2121111121 :48 ??+++++++++9 99.3% D
yamn4 ???????????? 99:59 ??????????00 0.0% D
Yes, something definitely changed at Zax's Mixmin VPS server.[end quoted plain text]
Perhaps it got rebooted. By Zax? Unlikely. By a server outage
and then a recovery? Possibly.
In any case here is what I've discovered.
Zax's 2 Mixmaster remailers - banana and slowmix -are alive again
and answering pings. His cpunk remailer Hsub is still dead.
Zax's 4 YAMN remailers - yamn, yamn2, yamn3 and yamn4 are alive
and answering pings. Wellactually yamn4, a middle, is not answering pings. >His Mixmaster pinger and YAMN pinger services can be viewed on his
Website. And they seem to be operating. Hourly updates. But, after so
many months of remailers being dead Zax's pingers don't know of any
current remailer addresses. These pingers need some human to
intervene and to feed them some public remailer addresses. So far that
human intervention seems to be lacking.
Finally, I did get an autoresponse to list@nym.mixmin.net which suggests
that Zax's nym server may be alive and working now.
But I haven't tested it.
--
SEC3
On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:03:23 -0400, D wrote:
On 21 Jun 2025 22:53:35 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:47:24 -0400, D wrote:
p.s. quite a coincidence putting the phrase "a life" in contextual
quotes
how so? I cant italic it, I only use text usenet not this html BS.
or 8-bit for that matter . . . and they still allow cross-posting
the relative position of two common phrases quoted in attribution could
appear inadvertent, purely accidental, not clever, socratic
perhaps, but my intent was emphasis
Subject: Re: banana and slow[end quote]
Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
From: SEC3 <admin@sec3.net>
Message-Id: <184c9d40f6a27a10$4742$586627$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> >...
On 6/25/25 13:48, SEC3 wrote:
But I did
notice one strange thing that may suggest otherwise.
If you do a remailer-conf request on any of his Yamn remailers
you will see that version number of the Yamn software being run
is version 0.2.7.
This is odd because the last known version of Yamn - the one
available at <https://github.com/crooks/yamn> - is version 0.2.6.
Correction. Zax did make changes to YAMN's code. On June 21 2024
5 days ago. <https://github.com/crooks/yamn/branches>
So. Not dead.
Further investigation shows that he has updated the version no. from
0.2.6 to 0.2.7.
Zax, come and visit us at apa-s. We miss you.
--
SEC3
SEC3[end quoted plain text]
so the mixmin sysop is being described by a trusted authority as "unlikely" to be involved with his server's recent return to service from unannounced and still to date unexplained hiatus . . . the plot thickens, it's bizarre