The state of OpenPGP key servers: Kristian, can you renew my certificate? A month later: Kristian? Ten days later: Too late, it’s expired

Sorry, I was busy, came the reply

There was a time when there was a certain amount of pride in the fact internet engineers all knew one another, that systems critical to the internet's functioning were run in the back of other facilities, and a single person was often in charge of whole services....