Re: Admins of borked Usenet providers have vanished.

VanguardLH wrote:

I remember using Albasani until that operator died.  See:
http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3C1kn498q.o2v802173ewlcN%25board%40big-8.org%3E
Someone (don't remember who)

Roman Racine.

picked up the tab (effort & money) for a
while to keep albasani.net alive, but it eventually died, too.

The hard disk died, and Roman never got around to reinstall the machine,
AFAIK. (It's one thing to keep a piece of complex software you didn't
create running; it's another thing to set it up again from scratch.)

-thh