Main AmiNet Site Gone, Possibly For Good

[OSS542]

It looks like the main AmiNet site is gone, perhaps for good now.  Many if not all the other US sites also appear to be gone,  and perhaps two or three sites (uk, se, cz) in the official aminet site list mirrored at the European site list.  It's not looking promising here.....can we as a community do anything about this "AmiNet rot" ?

Here is the notice from the main AmiNet site: (URL : http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/)
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WUArchive has suffered a RAID failure, it's nStor controller died. The disks may get recycled for another use.

This is what's available

A replacement machine has been ordered, it will be the last half of October before it's back.

WUArchive has been around for a long time, and evolved through several hardware configurations and owners.

It's content will be changing, some old stuff will remain, other chunks will go. For items to remain, they will require a sponsor from here at Washington University. A written statement of benefit maybe required. We are leaning toward K-12 outreach, and open source mirrors for wustl.edu.

If you have ideas please contact Allen Rueter 314/935-6429 or Dr. Bill Smart in the media and machines lab, 5-4749.

Thanks for your patience.

2004 Sep 24

[OSS542]

I have checked the current status of the sites as of Sep 26, 2004, based on the list of aminet mirrors on ftp.unina.it, and here is what I found :

USA         us.aminet.net    Complete mirror, full WWW support   (gone)
Germany     de.aminet.net    Complete mirror, full WWW support   (working)
UK          uk.aminet.net    Complete mirror, full WWW support   (gone)
Italy       it.aminet.net    Complete mirror, full WWW support   (working)
Sweden      se.aminet.net    Complete mirror, full WWW support   (gone)
Norway      no.aminet.net    Complete mirror, full WWW support   (working)
Czech Rep.  cz.aminet.net    Complete mirror, full WWW support   (gone)
USA         us2.aminet.net   Complete mirror, full WWW support   (gone)
Germany     de3.aminet.net   Complete mirror, custom WWW support (working)
Germany     de5.aminet.net   Partial mirror, partial WWW support (working)
Germany     de7.aminet.net   Partial mirror, partial WWW support (gone)

[OSS542]

I hope you're right, but I suspect perhaps not.  If it were just one or two sites, I'd agree, but there are quite a few.  I of course do not know AmiNet's fate, but I am concerned to see this kind of thing.