Hi all, I've not been where I could communicate with you through the list. However, this morning, it looks as though things are getting better for the Rootsweb computers as I received some mail from other lists today. Below, you will find a message, of interest, that Brian wrote yesterday after I contacted you. Leslie (Bridges) Kohler Rootsweb Donor ---------- > 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 > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative > http://www.rootsweb.com/