From: Joe Jared Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: ORB UK to close down Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:43:59 -0700 Organization: OsiruSoft Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3C153AAF.4FD340D4@osirusoft.com> References: Reply-To: joejared@relays.osirusoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.103.84.162 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ns.osirusoft.com 1008027859 18458 168.103.84.162 (10 Dec 2001 23:44:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.osirusoft.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Dec 2001 23:44:19 GMT Cc: exchange@ls.swynk.com To: paul@cummins.ie.eu.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Sorry to hear that. Be sure and turn the light off on the way out. (IE empty zone file or let the zone expire naturally) Paul Cummins wrote: > > With regret (and many heaving of sighs, I can hear you all) I have to > inform you all that ORB UK is closing with immediate effect. > > This is because the bills for the bandwidth used during the recent attacks > on ORB UK exceed $6000, just for the last 2 weeks. > > I can't afford to carry on this sort of damage, especially as this is only > really a hobby. > > Anyone who can find a way of avoiding this, please feel free to contact > me, but as it stands, as of 12.00 on 11 December 2001, ORB UK servers will > be permanently switched off. > > Anyone who feels guilty, or even just generous or charitable, could make a > paypal payment to traceyg@gst-group.co.uk, all funds will go towards the > costs of operating ORB UK for the last 6 months, and maybe go some way > towards putting something more permanent up in future. > > Regards to all, Especially those with whom I have crossed swords. > > And, if someone could copy this across to news.admin.net-abuse.email, I'd > be grateful :-) > > -- > Dr Paul Cummins - Internet Engineer | /"\ ASCII RIBBON > Tel: +44 1256 322629 + \ / CAMPAIGN > Email: paul@cummins.ie.eu.org | X AGAINST HTML MAIL > | / \ AND POSTINGS > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com) -- How am I spamming? mailto:0dayspam@1-1.com http://relays.osirusoft.com http://www.osirusoft.com