Minutes/2026-08-20
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
Present: RL, MM
Apologies: TM
- Administration
- comp.lang.asm.x86
: Final testing of the STUMP installation revealed that WebSTUMP was giving HTTP 500 errors. Fixing this requires a change in the Apache configuration. Terje will ask his hosting provider if this is possible; if not, this may require running STUMP without a web front end, or possibly some other solution such as hosting elsewhere. - rec.arts.anime.creative : Still no discussion on the 2nd RFD.
- soc.sexuality.general : MM noted that the RFD was still not visible on non-Panix news servers, so it is likely that it was indeed rejected by peering servers as suggested by TM in last week's meeting.
- comp.lang.asm.x86
- Infrastructure
- Panix replied to TM's email of 2026-08-13 to say that they do not provide any mitigation for attacks by AI scraper botnets. RL suggested that, in order to know whether moving to Panix would be likely to cause problems, we should also ask Contabo if they are currently doing any such mitigation. If they are not, then this suggests that we could migrate and expect to encounter similar bandwidth usage and server load.
