My personal theory, I think the non-player inhabitants bribed the Blizzard people to show some mercy by not bringing the Maelstrom (our server) back online with the rest of them.
This is a list of the server status http://img488.imageshack.us/my.php?image=servers2rx.jpg which shows people being able to play wow everywhere except where my guild’s people are and
Is from a few of our people putting up their own little protest.
Ah well, it’s given me a chilled out night when I’ve been able to natter to people, listen to a little music and maybe get to bed before midnight :-).