Greetings listers
You have probably noticed over the last month that list
mail can be patchy or even non existent for hours at a
time.
As mentioned previously in June/July to many of my email lists except those
I have recently taken over or started.
Rootsweb have been upgrading their hardware to handle the increasing email
traffic of 25,000+ email lists and significantly increasing data storage
space for
worldconnect, various regional databases and Freepages webpages now needed
as Rootsweb's popularity increases.
The problems you are seeing are a result of the work
they are still doing to improve our service. They promise that no mail is
being lost and although I'm not altogether sure about that, we are going to
have to trust their
assurances that it is only a hiccup. It's been a very quiet weekend on many
of the lists with almost no messages getting through and behind the scenes
there are other situations which only affect the listowners.
I think we are just going to have to be patient and in time it should all
get back to normal. For those that are unaware, Rootsweb has been going for
many years on voluntary subscription basis much coming from early List
Admins and freepages owners etc. It continues to be provided as a free
service and is now supported by the new parent company -
Ancestry.com
Rootsweb in the main is, as always supported by Random
acts of Kindness by family history researchers just like yourselves with
only a few technical roles being paid positions. So when feeling frustrated,
try to remember most
of us are volunteers, giving of our time freely so many fellow researchers
can benefit.
regards
Michael Cheeseman
List Administrator
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