Week of clinical death of site 2: 5020/400 and fido7. *: Readers of Google Groups and some other WebBBS lost access to Fidonet

At area: //Ru.Fidonet.Digest/? Msgid = 2: 50/15 + 4e2448be (this WebBBS, however, may not be able to withstand the habra effect) in Fidonet's Digest you can read the grim news that July 14, 2011 years on a large node and gate 2: 5020/400, a technical failure occurred: as a result of hard disk failure, all Fidonet services stopped working on ddt.demos.su - including the NNTP gate news: //ddt.demos.su ( supported the hierarchy fido7. * in USENET) and the ftp server ftp://ddt.demos.su/pub/fileecho/ with archives of file echo conferences.

Of course, in connection with this, on all WebBBS and on all NNTP-gates that received fidpochtu from 2: 5020/400, there are also no new letters from Fidonet. The reverse is also true: letters sent from the Internet through those gates that worked in both directions do not reach Fidonet.

This problem has affected at least the following sites:

• http://groups.google.com/ (Google Groups)
  
• http://fido.skitalets.ru/newsgroups.php
  
• news: //news2.neva.ru
  
• news: //news.mtu.ru

What will happen with this node in the future, what its recovery will be like is not very clear.
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In the worst case, they will be recovered from last year’s backup copy, since daily copying, prescribed for kroons, for some reason, after the fact, turned out to be unworkable.

Some fans of Fidonet, who did not read him from the inside, now must not know all week what happened.