This might explain some of the slow mail... Teri ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date forwarded: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Date sent: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:49:49 -0700 From: Tim Pierce <twp@rootsweb.com> Subject: lists.rootsweb.com is down Send reply to: LISTOWNERS-L@rootsweb.com To: listowners-emergency@bl-30.rootsweb.com Forwarded by: listowners-emergency@rootsweb.com 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 --------------------------------------- Terry (Phil 4:13) Teri (Ps 37:5) Lancaster, OH pastor751@greenapple.com http://www.greenapple.com/~pastor751 NEW!! Grandson photos!! A memorial page for Troy 1975-1997 TREASURES-a helpful page with a little of everything http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtwheatl/index.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnisanti/Isanti/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~cosanmig/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~comontro/index.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~codolore/index.html