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In article <31e72be9.7805319@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>, C. Peter Constantinidis <yu156589@yorku.ca> wrote:
>
> It is possible this will happen, because in the past they yanked their
> feed to io.org because Mike Horwath got angry at all the pissed off
> people complaining about bad io.org service.

    This has never happened to my knowledge (and I should know, since
I run the news service at IO).  All Winternet did was stop providing
NNRP access to io.org customers, which was an act of courtesy in the
first place anyway.  We have always been (and still are) exchanging
news with Winternet.

    In any case, winternet.com is in big doo-doo right now.  Two of
Winternet's owners IO'd Mike Horwath and his staff just before the
American Independance Day (some readers here will appreciate the use
of "IO" as a verb... ;-) ).  If you ask the current staff at Winternet
to turn off the feed to iStar, either they won't know how to do it, or
they'll end up buggering the entire server.

> If you write, and the feed to istar gets cut off from Winternet, do
> not worry. I know at least one other isp in Toronto does still have a
> winternet feed, which is interlog.com so when you vote with your
> wallet by leaving istar, that's one place among others you can go to.

    You seem to think the Winternet news server is the end-all-be-all
of Usenet.  It is not, although I agree that Mike runs a great
service.  iStar, Interlog, IO/ICAN and every other major ISP in town
have redundant feeds.  We also feed each other so if even a major feed
is cut, none of us are screwed.
-- 
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"