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William Gunn +1 (650) 614-1749 http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/ On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 4:56 AM Clara Armengou <cl...@doaj.org> wrote: > Dear community, > > We deeply regret the current problems with the DOAJ site. After much > investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ > is effectively under attack from an unknown third party. > > We have deployed a number of counter-measures to halt this attack, but > with limited success, and are therefore forced to take even more extreme > measures to attempt to mitigate this. We hope that this will work but we > cannot predict the outcome at this stage. > > The DOAJ team would like to apologise for the intermittent service and to > let you know we are doing our best to go back to normal operations. > > -- > Clara Armengou > Project and Communications Manager > > *Directory of Open Access Journals* > *www.doaj.org <http://www.doaj.org> * > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >
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