>Return-Path: <RootsWeb-Review-request@rootsweb.com> >Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:24:00 -0700 (PDT) >Old-To: RootsWeb-Review@rootsweb.com >Old-cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Status: lists.rootsweb.com >Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:13:41 -0700 >From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Resent-Message-ID: <"Ltow5.A.9hB.LYK_1"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> >To: RootsWeb-Review@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: RootsWeb-Review@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <RootsWeb-Review@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/15 >X-Loop: RootsWeb-Review@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: RootsWeb-Review-request@rootsweb.com > > > >The lists.rootsweb.com computer, one of RootsWeb's two main list >servers, is still down. > >On Saturday morning we lost a substantial part of the machine's >operating system. That meant, in essence, that we were going to >have to rebuild the machine's software from scratch. > >Since we were going to have to reinstall and reconfigure the >operating system, it seemed like this was as good of time as any to >upgrade the machine's hardware. > >At this point we have the listserver's hardware upgraded to the >extent that the server should be 2-6 times faster than it was. We >also have the software recovered to the point where we can log onto >the machine in a normal fashion and start configuring the operating >system in preparation for a return to normal operations. > >We expect to begin clearing our queues (we believe we have lost very >little if any mail) sometime between Monday and Tuesday evenings, >and to be fully back to normal operations by Wednesday evening. We >will probably try to process subscribe and unsubscribe requests >before processing posts, but things will inevitably come out as sort >of a hodge-podge until the queues are cleared. > >Thanks for your patience while we recover from this disaster, and a >special thanks to RootsWeb's Members, Sponsors, Donors, and Patrons >who have collectively made it possible for us to increase the >capacity of the server while we repair the crippled operating >system. -B > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com > > > Keith Hume, email khume@netcomuk.co.uk CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~khume/home.html Kent,England Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.) HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada) SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England) FALL,(Ireland & Australia) BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)