AFAIK, Kriston had already not been involved with AOLserver at all for
many months. If you search the AOLserver list archives, you'll find
that his last post of any sort was
2002-10-29,
his last genuinely AOLserver related post was
2002-10-04,
and if I remember correctly he'd been awfully quiet before then too.
Last I heard on the AOLserver chat was that as of a few weeks ago, AOL
assigned 3 full time people to the AOLserver group - not
including Jim Davidson (the guru who wrote 4.0), who is (I think) in
charge of the Digital City group and contributes to AOLserver
development on his own initiative (because AOLserver is critical to
Digital City, etc.).
So we'll see how it all works out, but Talli is right - things look
better for AOLserver lately, not worse.