[Stones] Before we were so rudely interrupted...

[Chris Tweed]

Hello everyone!

Well, it has been two weeks to the day since my mail server died on  
me. I won't go into lots of explaining and painful stories about  
recovering things (not at this time anyway). I'm just sorry that it  
has taken two weeks to get to this point.

There has been a LOT of work going on behind the scenes, and there  
will continue to be more :^)

I do need to thank lots of you for all your messages of support and  
offers of help. It amazed me to find out just how much you were all  
missing your fix of The Stones List. I'm not going to name names  
here, I don't want to make you all blush! But THANK YOU - all your  
support and help was so very much appreciated by me, and I hope it is  
also appreciated by the subscribers to this list.

So yes, it's back - with a new domain name, nothing I could do to  
salvage the old one after I rather hastily decided that the list was  
dead and pulled my hosting contract.

Everything should be just about back to normal, you just need to re- 
set up your email filters to move stuff sent to  
stones at stoneslist.org.uk to a folder in your email client (or however  
you deal with the mailing list messages at your end) and make sure  
that you send messages to stones at stoneslist.org.uk for distribution  
to the list.

The situation at the moment is that I am running the same software,  
Mailman, all of the data in archives and subscriber settings and  
things are all intact. Basically it's like I took a copy of the old  
server just at the point it died and I've brought that back online -  
but calling it a new name.

I will have some work to do on making sure that all of the links in  
the archives work, and I have a LOT of work to do to make something  
look good at www.stoneslist.org.uk - but at least it kinda works  
right now. I will also need to get the FAQ updated. It will all happen!

So, I know you've all been very patient, please just a bit more  
patience from you all for me to get all those little bits and pieces  
sorted out. At least the mailing list is up and running again.

So too should be stones-chat, again with the proviso that you use  
stones-chat at stoneslist.org.uk to send your messages to.

What I would like to say is that the way that things are running  
right now is not really ideal. It works, but it's not really any more  
secure than the old server was (well, maybe a little bit!). I am  
working on something for a more secure future for the list, and more  
will be revealed as things progress. Right now I just wanted to get  
something back up and running and that would give me a bit more time  
to play around with the New Improved Stones Mailing List going forwards.

Right, I'll stop blathering now. I just hope that some of you are  
still out there, and that you have things to say after two weeks  
without your Stones fix!

Once again - many apologies!

Kind Regards,

Chris



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Chris Tweed
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