I have not noticed much of a delay-but those hardworking rootsweb folks are at it again.
Why don't you send them an extra $25 or $50 to help them cover the costs of this
wonderful enterprise.
Melissa
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Pierce [SMTP:twp@rootsweb.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 1998 2:50 PM
To: listowners-emergency(a)bl-30.rootsweb.com
Subject:
lists.rootsweb.com is down
Hi, folks --
I'm Tim Pierce, one of the senior system administrators at
RootsWeb.
Our main list server,
lists.rootsweb.com, has been down since this
morning. Brian Leverich is presently hard at work installing a
new disk and preparing to reinstall the operating system. Once
that's done, Karen Isaacson and I will reinstall the mailing list
software and run some tests to make sure that everything is
operating smoothly.
As long as the system is not working, we're also going to try to
take advantage of this down time by preparing a new, faster server
for that machine, which is woefully underpowered for the amount of
mail that passes through it. Brian will begin building that
server while Karen and I get the old one back on the air.
We expect to have the server running again by midnight (U.S. East
Coast time) and hope to have the backlogged mail cleared out by
Sunday morning. Thankfully, we don't believe that any mail has
been lost (only delayed), and all of the archives appear to be
intact.
Thanks to everyone for your patience. And thanks *especially* to
all of the RootsWeb Sponsors, Donors and Patrons, whose
much-needed funds make it possible for us to have extra hardware
on hand for just such an emergency!
--
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades