Received this from someone else ------------
RootsWeb and Ancestry suffered router and switch failures. I've been
told this has nothing to do with the new message boards. These
failures are hardware related. And, they would have failed anyway.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Brandvold" <lynn(a)gis.nmt.edu>
To: <MNGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MNGEN-L] old GenConnect Boards
Jackie and all,
I am suddenly unable to connect to any site on
rootsweb.com or ftp to
any of the sites I maintain on rootsweb. Do you know what is up?
Lynn
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnpennin/mnpennin.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnredlak/mnredlak.htm
Jackie Hufschmid wrote:
>
> I have adopted the boards for my counties and have looked at the new
ones.
> Needless to say I do not like them and not happy about the
situation.
It is
> unfortunate that the cc's were not asked for their input as
they are the
> ones who have put a lot of work into their pages.
>
> And I certainly don't like the fact that I can't do any editing, I have
had
> several cases where the email address had to be changed and it
was very
> simple to do but now it can't be done - hopefully this will be
corrected.
>
> This morning I received an email message that the URL for the county
boards
> have changed, again, it is now
>
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.nor...
>
ates.minnesota.counties.roseau&o=1&maxrows=25&dir=next
> Change roseau to your county.
>
> But like all new changes it just means we have something new to learn.
>
> Jackie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lynn Brandvold" <lynn(a)gis.nmt.edu>
> To: <MNGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:17 PM
> Subject: [MNGEN-L] old GenConnect Boards
>
> > Jackie and all,
> >
> > Are there other CC's in MN that were using the GenConnect boards that
> > have gone away since they have all been combined into one Rootsweb
> > Message Board? I really liked the GenConnect Boards and don't wish to
> > be an administrator for the new boards, which require that a poster be
> > registered with
Ancestry.com and raise some big questions in my mind
> > about copy right, as well as the fact that the new admins will not be
> > allowed to do any editing...not even at a poster's request. So I
> > haven't re-adopted the boards for my two counties, but am now looking
> > for some other query system. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Lynn Brandvold
> > CC for Red Lake and Pennington Counties
> >