Re: News on AIOE's outage

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:19:46 -0500
Tony <[email protected]> wrote:
>Sn!pe wrote:
>> Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:29:39 +0100
>>>> Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Is there any site (or Newsgroup) which carries details of the AIOE
>>>>> situation?  Preferably a read-only one without all the self-indulgent OT
>>>>> trolling.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is known is that the Raid Controller failed catastrophically,
>>>>
>>>> So much for RAID mitigating against data loss.
>>>>
>>>>> killing (at least) all of the transient data.  My impression is that the
>>>>> backups were not as helpful as one would have hoped.
>>>>> Is AIOE going to make a comeback?  There have been outages before but
>>>>> this one has lasted a month and counting.
>>>>
>>>> Setting up a server would take a morning so its probably a hardware
>issue,or
>>>> more specifically - money. Perhaps he simply doesn't have the funds to pay
>>>> for new kit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if he lost his code as well.  That should not be the case,
>>> but something has to explain this.
>>> The raid controller has to be replaced (cost: under 100 € to over 2000
>>> €) but I imagine the discs could still be useable.
>>> This is still speculation and it would be good to know the facts.
>>>
>> 
>> The absence of any word whatsoever from Paolo makes me wonder
>> if he might have some Real Life issues to deal with that take a higher
>> priority than does his service.
>> 
>
>AIOE is supposed to take top priority due to all the school children who 
>now can't learn anything on usenet. Eternal September the guy who runs 

How many kids ever used usenet even in the 90s, never mind now?