Folks, I know you won't see this until after the problem is solved but I thought I would send it so that I don't have to keep posting why the list was not working and to let you know what is done with the money that is donated to rootsweb. Maggie ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 12-Sep-98 17:51 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 !^NavFont02F05BB0007NGHHLBD10FC Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/mindex.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* God Put Me On Earth to Accomplish a Certain Number of Things. Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*