Re: News on AIOE's outage

Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/27/23 8:30 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > AFAIK he didn't make any money from it, it was a hobby 
> > I suppose. Perhaps he was getting fed up with running it and was 
> > thinking about quitting and this simply forced his hand.
> >
>
> I have been operating news servers for more than a decade and AIOE has
> always been professional and communicated as such /if/ /possible/.
> 
> As such, I'm taking it that AIOE will communicate if ~> when they can.
> 
> In the mean time let's give them the respect and space that they deserve
> / we would want if we were in their place.
>

I recall that when Paolo started aioe he posted "I have a dream."

AIUI, it was all about providing Usenet access to those who couldn't
access it any other way due to government oppression, or whatever.  
Unfortunately that meant it was also open to abusers.  It must be
like 'Whack-A-Mole' to keep on top of that.  

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