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

[Ric]

well done Chris! ;)

Ric

--- Chris Tweed <chris at tweeds.org.uk> 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


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