[NTLK] Newton City email - dead ? (was Re: MBED TLS)

Tom tom at falkensweb.com
Fri Oct 31 06:22:43 PDT 2025


Right now it's not answering at all, but tjat could be me :-)

From memory:
* Dead link to "buy" on front page
* BBS was down (even over native telnet), and showed a scrambled picture on the web login page 
* Forums showed no activity for months

All of which made me sceptical of sending money ;-)
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On 31 October 2025 00:37:22 GMT, Marisa Giancarla via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
>It's still up. I will look for issues, or can you tell me what yours were so I can check them? I still get over 1000 downloads a day.
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>Marisa
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>On October 30, 2025 12:09:40 PM PDT, Tom <tom+newtontalk at falkensweb.com> wrote:
>>On Thursday, 30 October 2025 16:28:02 Greenwich Mean Time mark audacity romberg wrote:
>>> Hmmm…what’s Newton City?
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>>I *thought* it was a little community site that for a small yearly fee would give you access to a Newton compatible IMAP and SMTP server.
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>>But it looks like the site has errors, and it's forums have been unused for >6 months: https://newtoncity.org/
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>>Hmm... Hmm...
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>>I could downgrade my personal mail servers security....
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>>Or if enough people commit to the cost, we could get a dedicated box I'd look after; about 70 ukp/year, so to match Newton City's pricing we'd need about a dozen people who wanted to send and receive email on their Newtons....
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>>Tom
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