Re: The end of Asimov?

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Knut Roll-Lund" <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no> wrote in message 9bWdnTUhoNsrYc3YRVnzvA@telenor.com">news:9bWdnTUhoNsrYc3YRVnzvA@telenor.com...
: Oliver wrote:
: > Hello all,
: >
: > I searched quite a while but couldnt find any info, now I'm posting
: > here. Does anybody know what has happened to the Asimov archive? It
: > seems that since some days there is no more access to the ftp server.
: > And when you point your browser to "asimov.net" it states that the
: > domain is for sale.
: > This would really be sad if Asimov would have been gone :-(
: > Also there were quite some very interesting images in the incoming
: > folder, are these images now also lost?
:
: When I try to log on ftp I get a reply that says:
:
: ftp.apple.asimov.net=208.185.231.103
: 220 ProFTPD 1.2.10 Server (ftp.moveon.org) [208.185.231.103]
: USER anonymous
: 331 Password required for anonymous.
: PASS ***********
: 530 Login incorrect.
: QUIT
: Retry: Wait 5 sec
:
: I don't remember seeing ftp.moveon.org before (it is a political
: organization) and I have never been rejected like that I think. Timeout
: yes, reject no. Also when trying this in a browser I get '530 Login
: incorrect' and I'm sure I never saw that before.
:
: The IP belongs to 'We also walk dogs' according to whois, which seems to
: be a network company. MoveOn is presented as one of their customers.
:
: Is it the correct IP the DNS is giving me?
:
: Many people have probably downloaded all of it (except for that in the
: incoming directory) I do have many of the files. So, not lost.


I have a back-up of Asimov, not current, but feel free to
upload the incoming files to my FTP and I'll get them into
the download folder ASAP. I'll put as much of the files I
can from Asimov so they'll be available to newbies.

Thanks all,

William Garber
Email Address - willy46pa@garberstreet.com
Alt. Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
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