Re: The end of Asimov?

["Vince Briel" <vbriel@removethisspamcamcast.net>]

Try planet mirror for asimov apple II mirror.

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/apple2/

Cheers,

Vince

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"Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> William Garber wrote:
>> "Knut Roll-Lund" <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no> wrote in message 
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>> : 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
>> Web address - http://www.garberstreet.com
>
> There was a bit torrent of the Asimov archive (amongst others) floating
> around a couple of months ago (which I downloaded), so rest assured
> there are many of us out there with backups - although as has been
> rightly point out, the incoming folder was off limits and there was
> some good stuff in there.
>
> Does anyone know who was maintaining the archive? Maybe they have
> backups of the incoming folder?
>
> It is a damn shame if that archive has gone the way of the dodo though
> - I'm guessing that it has been there for a very long time?
>
> cheers,
> -p
>