An anonymous reader writes: Arthur David Olson, the creator and maintainer of the timezone database used in about every unix/linux platform in use on the planet, just sent the message to the timezone mailing list: — From: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]"
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:16:02 -0400
Subject: Civil suit; ftp shutdown; mailing list shutdown
A civil suit was filed on September 30 in federal court in Boston; I'm a defendant; the case involves the time zone database.
The ftp server at elsie.nci.nih.gov has been shut down.
The mailing list will be shut down after this message.
Electronic mail can be sent to me at @gmail.com.
I hope there will be better news shortly.
--ado — A Google search does not yet reveal anything about this; does someone know what is going on?