They have been out for a while. I also notice before I logged in (or tried to) that the last post in the Gentlemens Parlor was December 31, 1969. I didn't think Al Gore invented the internet until the 80's.
From the MySQL-errors it looks like some table files were lost. Maybe a disc crash or the admin wanted to read mail using the "really fast" option (rm -rf). Let's just hope that the latest backup is fairly recent.