Dear All,
The list has been down since Friday. This follows a denial of service
attack on one of the websites hosted via our ISP Green Net.
The following message has been on their website over the weekend:
*"*/Sunday 4 August, 0400 BST. Since 10.15 BST on Thursday 1 August
2013, we have been experiencing connectivity problems at our data
centre, which will be affecting email and websites hosted with GreenNet.
This appears to be caused by a massive distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attack, and a subsequent block by our upstream providers./"
and..............
"/For more updates, please see //our Twitter feed @GreenNetISP
<https://twitter.com/GreenNetISP>//./"
In the interim I tried to contact as many listers as possible (ie the
ones I could glean from my in box so lurkers were left in the dark). We
set up a Facebook group a couple of hours before the match and nearly a
100 people were invited to join in. We also set up a twitter account
which I'm not 100% au fait with but it all added to the mix. Those who
contributed to the face book page enjoyed something which was a mix
between IRC in the old days and being able to get match updates whilst
you wandered around a French Hypermatket!
The facebook page is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ and
has already attracted some new blood and guess what BOTL!
The twitter account is @TheLeedsList what I need to sort out is how we
retweet any tweets from folk that have the hashtag #theleedslist in
them. Help is required by a twitterati.
I'll also take a copy of all listers email addy's from the list database
and set up a back up in case of any future failure. Green Net has been
so reliable that this caught me on the hop.
Do check out the Facebook page it was great fun on Satdi and should be
for Wednesday's match too.
Cheers
betty
(listowningly)
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