Its actually been on their web site, even I found it.
The gist is this, although the server hardware was near its replacement
date, it failed unexpectedly and had to be replaced. It took a while to
build it and get the software working initially under a different name, ie
reader in place of news, but now its all propagated through to the DNS
servers I think and its working as before.
However I do occasionally notice it drops the connecting and needs a prod,
whether this is just configuration, I'm not sure. I'm using a different
sever as my main one and ES as back up on this machine ere..
Brian

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Once upon a time on usenet Brian Gaff wrote:
Just testing Eternal Septembers new server.
I don't want loads of messages from every portal it visits!
Brian

New server? Is this why I've been having heaps of trouble getting
newsgroups lately? You'd think they'd have emailed me...

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