From: usenet-2008@planetcobalt.net   
      
   Aje RavenStar  wrote:   
   > I checked Google News, Newsgroups, and web - no mention of any   
   > announcement or press release on anything going on with them (such as   
   > office seized by tax folks or anything).   
      
   Friday, 15:30 CEST, still down, and still no news.   
      
   Weird, since the server itself is still online and providing several   
   services. However, when connecting to the SMTP port I'm getting some   
   MySQL errors. Perhaps some major system/database fuckup? The IRC bouncer   
   running on port 6668/tcp looks a little suspicious, too.   
      
   cu   
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