I suggest to drop Atkins and start using gmane.org. I use it for
several years in FireBase, and it had always been very stable.

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Carlos H. Cantu
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www.warmboot.com.br - blog.firebase.com.br


AJ> The readme.txt for Firebird/2.5 states that the Firebird-develop list
AJ> is viewable via a newsgroup interface, namely news://news.atkin.com/.
AJ> That's fine if the atkin server "rises from the ashes", but maybe
AJ> this item in the readme.txt should be dropped "until further notice".