Closure of ashes.demon.co.uk domain

My original Demon domain ashes.demon.co.uk closes on 28 July 2020 after being active since June 1993 (a little over 27 years); Vodafone, the owners of the demon.co.uk domain, decided to suspend their agreement with Namesco (who had been providing the *.demon.co.uk hosting for some years) with no explanation, and no option for Namesco to purchase demon.co.uk and continue providing service the all the ex-Demon customers.

The full web site www.ashes.demon.co.uk has been mirrored to my other "ashes" domain www.ashes.org.uk/demon with a 301 HTTP redirect in place on the Namesco server; with any luck search engines will eventually find the new home for the site.

Ashes in Two Places

One place:

PCOak: A new, better PCElm

PCOak is a new, enhanced version of the PCElm mail client, based on Demon's version of PCElm 1.12.
PCOak 0.2.1 (March 2006: the first new release for 2.5 years!) is now available, after a very long (work related) hiatus in development; this adds assorted new functionality to the 0.2 release, and will be the last version to feature the unused historical baggage of uucp mode, dot menu, MMDF mailbox support and the built-in message editor. There is also a separate "long-subject" version which stores, and can display, longer subject lines than the regular version. PCOak is fully compatible with PCElm, but is much more stable and reliable, and has some useful enhancements. It can be confidently said that all PCElm users, no matter how timid, would be better off using PCOak 0.2; while 0.2.1 is based on tried and tested code, it probably should not be declared suitable for the most timid PCElm user until it's been in use for a while.

GremNOS (GeK's KA9Q variant)

GremNOS is a variant of KA9Q, based on Demon's 2.16d release, which was originally developed by Garaham E Kinns (GeK); he stopped developing GremNOS after v0.2 was released in November 1997, but since 2001 a few "unofficial" further developments have been made by Simon Turner and Pete Disdale; our current version is v0.3d (October 2004), which fixes the problems with NUL bytes in SMTP mail which can stall the server.

Another place:

We may (or may not, given the amount of time we seem to have these days) eventually have stuff about:

• Morris Minors (well, our 1956 Series II saloon, anyway)
• The Simtek Formula One team (history, drivers, pictures, who knows?)
• Some of the things that interest us (organic gardening, motorcycling, music, sci-fi, not getting enough sleep)

Some links:

• Launton Village Players
• Babylon 5 Lurker's Guide (everything you could want to know, and more, about the Babylon 5 TV series)
• The Morris Minor Owners Club
• Deep Purple (yes, they do still exist; yes, they are still extremely good; no, they aren't tired old hippies only in it for the money)

And, of course: Why "ashes"?

Page last updated: 28 July 2020