Strange, the last post I saw from him on abcusers (11-June-2004) said:

"That was mine. I took it down since my server now is so slow that it
doesn't make much sense... When I get something faster I'll probl. put it online again."

Maybe he now has something faster.

I may be re-instating my own attempt at this sort of thing soon. The holdups have been due to me having a back so bad I couldn't sit at the computer for more than 5 minutes, a problem with a domain re-registration and now BT have messed our phoneline up and I don't want to be uploading/downloading stuff on pay as you go dial up which I'm being forced to use because of crossed phone lines...

I took ours down because I discovered that abcmp2s can loop if it gets bad abc and once had an ISP phone me up asking what it was, why it was using most of the servers processing for so long, etc. It would be OK if I could afford my own server but not what you risk when you are sharing services with many other users on the same server. John Chambers has given me some code using signal.h that should cause abcm2ps to terminate itself if it runs for more than a few seconds and I plan on trying to compile my own version of the program with this code added to give me the safety net I need.

Jon