At this point I wonder, why not just pull the plug and restart the server/network? I suppose you could suggest it would be off-putting to users, but the curren

At this point I wonder, why not just pull the plug and restart the server/network? I suppose you could suggest it would be off-putting to users, but the current method seems to have done the same. Does anyone know what the endgame is for freenode? Is there one?