Subscribers,
This morning I received the following message from RootsWeb that may or may
not impact on the service that you are used to receiving:
BEGINNING OF MESSAGE
Beginning Monday, 10 June 2002, RootsWeb will begin the complex and
time-consuming process of upgrading our servers to new hardware.
o What does this mean for you? Well, it means some servers will be
unavailable during this time and we are asking for your patience.
For up-to-date information about the different resources, you can
visit
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ as the move progresses.
o List Administrators: When the time comes to move list servers,
we will be halting operation on the machine to complete the move.
We expect to have the machines down the least amount of time
possible. No mail will be sent from or posted to your mailing
lists. We do not expect to lose any messages.
o Board Administrators: Nothing, unless your board happens to be
gatewayed to a mailing list then the information for list
administrators apply.
o Web Pages: FTP will be down so that changes can't be made to
pages until everything is working correctly on the new servers.
There will be a short time that the pages will not be available as
the transfer takes place.
Thank you for your patience and understanding while we go through a
few "growing pains."
END OF MESSAGE
As stated, you may or may not experience temporary difficulty accessing
certain RootsWeb services during this period, so please be patient. If you
have any questions, please contact me (NOT RootsWeb) and I will try to help
you, but chances are I will likely just ask you to be patient until the
work is done. If you do feel the need to contact me, please do so at my
personal e-mail address at decann(a)infi.net because my Admin address through
RootsWeb may also be down for a period of time.
I thank you in advance for your cooperation.
David E. Cann
cann-admin(a)rootsweb.com
Administrator of the Cann mailing
list and message board on RootsWeb