Subject: Re: Asimov East Mirror appears to be closing down!
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In article <39C3B5AC.1F9BB45D@hotmaul.com>, Bobman wrote:
>I just logged into Asimov East, and there's a message stating that it will be
>shutting down at the end of October. Yikes! Does anyone know if the original
>Asimov is ever coming back, or is it gone for good?

I managed to grab a complete mirror of Asimov East and have been putting
together a web-based frontend, as well as resorting and clearing out as
many of the duplicate images as possible.  Unfortunately, my Paying Job (TM)
sucks most of the life out of me and I'm working on porting KEGS to Windows,
so it's been slow going all-around.

There is at least one other site in the works that I'm aware of.  Asimov's
future may be cloudy, but the legacy will live on.

-- 
"It was like he was describing a rusty old backhoe getting it on with a 
broken down front-end loader.  The parts don't fit, things go crunch, 
and everyone leaves unsatisfied, including the reader. "
    - Big Daddy, on Stephen King's depictions of sex scenes (from csipgr)