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

[Merryn Dineley]

very, very well done and hurrah fro me too!!!

merryn

Chris Tweed wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
>