2005 December 03 — The nothing-to-update update. The MUD is running and stable. SMTP is back again, so you can e-mail cerebus@ageofinsanity.org again for all things a little too long to fit in MUDmail.
2005 September 3 — Back up and running. There was downtime in June due to switching hosts, downtime before that from something like February through March, switching hosts from the original whit.org. Your primary admin is back in school with a little more time on his hands. Presently no MX server for ageofinsanity.org — this will be rectified inside of the month. At which point, hopefully, banshee.whit.org will point back to the MUD again.
Greetings from Cerebus. Banshee.whit.org is no more. Whit.org is no longer able to accomodate the MUD at no charge, as it has for so long. My great thanks go out to Taz who has been a tireless and uncomplaining sysadmin for so many years. He was kind enough to tar up AoI and trasmit it to me after several failed attempts to get such a girthy file down the pipe.
Bub and Erabus have given me the go ahead to continue working on Age of Insanity as I see fit. Now, I deeply respect the rights all of the previous codErs of AoI have to their intellectual property. Taz, Penstar, Huron, E, Bub, and others have all contributed to AoI to say nothing of the original CircleMUD and DikuMUD coders. However, contacting all of these people for permission to go ahead is somewhat impossible as I have no means to actually contact many of them. Given that these past coders have worked under the title of Age of Insanity, I feel so long as I'm running the same MUD with the same name and the permission of its original creator, my use of their code and areas is under the same contract as it was when they originally contributed their code. If any of the builders or coders who contributed to AoI in the past have issue with this, please contact me personally so I can buy you a drink, meet you, and discuss our options.
With that said, I've secured hosting for Age of Insanity that should work for some time at ageofinsanity.org:8081. The domain is registered to me and will be for the year. The present host has met all expectations of uptime and resources which is counterbalanced by having absolutely no customer support. If anything changes, I'll keep you as informed as I can here.