The following announcement was posted to listowners-l(a)rootsweb.com
today
"This is advanced notification to you that most of RootsWeb will be
off-line on the morning of Thursday 19th January while we shift
servers between NOCs. A message to this effect has been loaded to
the announcements on the HelpDesk,
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/.
"The Message Boards and WorldConnect are both services that are
already at the new location so these services will not be off-line,
ie. they will be fully functional.
"The time of the shift will be 12am through 6am Utah time (MST), ie.
up to six hours in duration."
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It went on to say that messages posted during the downtime will be held in
the queue and posted when the servers are brought back online.