[GreenKeys] Some ITTY Info

[George B. Hutchison]

GreenKeyers - - -

ITTY recently endured a situation where some contributors could not
get their submissions into ITTY.

No one had changed anything at their respective locations, but things
just stopped working for no apparent reason.

Bill, K7TTY, Tom Tillson, Mechanically Interested Citizen, and myself
spent a number of hours trying to ascertain just what was happening.

Bill and Tom pinned it down with the discovery of the internet's
efforts at reducing spam by many ISPs simply shutting down acceptance
and/or handling of Port 25 SMTP traffic.

I have not seen it publicized, yet my local ISP knew of what was
going on, and they either forgot what was happening, or otherwise
neglected to let an important part of their operation, their
customers, know of the Port 25 action.

I would like to thank Wayne LeTourneau, WB0CTE, for carrying the bulk
of the load as far as message traffic and stories seen on ITTY from
about 10 November until this morning, when Tom was once again able to
submit news items.

ITTY has hit its max capacity of eight "Listeners" a couple of times
this past two weeks. I will open it up to allow up to 12 listeners.
We have a pretty good upload bandwidth, with upload capacity of 32
listeners based on the 896 kbps upload caapacity on the DSL circuit
here at ITTY. We keep the individual listener bandwidth low so that
those on Dial-up will have continuous copy.

In perhaps three weeks ITTY will go up to four channels. More on this
as we get things assembled.

ITTY was our solution to a comment that was tendered about ten years
ago on GreenKeys that "there was nothing on the HF Bands to copy any
more".

ITTY is there to give your machines something to print, get them
warm, the oil fragrant, and your respective shacks and shops and
radio rooms more like the old days when the machines would clatter
for hours and hours.

ITTY is politically incorrect, so on behalf of the small but
dedicated ITTY staff, a very MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR, and fun
part of 2009 to all.

George - W7TTY - ITTY Central.