It was probably a matter of time. IIRC, the mail archive stopped recording messages sometime in 11/2014.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Zachary Kaplan <razic@viralkitty.com> wrote:
FWIW 9fans.net is down. anyone know whats up? causing a bunch of stir on github:

https://github.com/rogpeppe/godef/issues/4
https://github.com/fatih/vim-go/issues/368

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:58 PM, <cigar562hfsp952fans@icebubble.org> wrote:
Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> writes:

> http://t.co/qyvHkuP2m8
>
> Sounds a bit pollyanna to me, but who am I to judge?

For the benefit of those of us without Web access, what's behind that
link?