I wrote this for another list, but there are possibly a few of you who here who might want some advance warning of possible Team.Net downtime. I don't want to be the cause of even more hoilday panic!
Anyway, here's the message: Yes, there are still some spam messages from hijacked email accounts getting through now and then. I've been working on the issue a bit, but it is turning out to be a case of 'shipwright's disease' as we know it, applied to computers. If you don't know what I am talking about, check out http://www.team.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32 Basically to tighten up security and improve a few things I'm planning on updating the operating system and all the user level programs that Team.Net uses. Not a small undertaking, but well within my abilities. Currently there is no budget for hardware upgrades, perhaps after the spring fund drive. Of course, if you haven't yet spent all your loot on holiday gifts and such and wanted to donate [ link below ] I would not complain ;-) The process will take a fair bit of time over who knows how many late nights at the keyboard. With luck it will all be unnoticed by you folks, transparent to the user, as they say. But there is always a chance of service not being available for some period of time, hopefully no more than minutes at a time. It could be something simple, like a stupid typo in a config file, or it could be one of the cats jumping the the keyboard as I go to fetch some more refrehments and somehow managing to hit the CONFIRM REFORMAT OF ALL DISKS button. I remember what it was like when the ISP I was using for the DSL line went belly up and Team.Net was off the air for 8 days - not a good thing. Actually, I wonder what the up vs. down time percentages might be over the last 19 years and 7 months of Team.Net. I won't count the years before that when I ran it from the U of U. Anyway, short story is if Team.Net disappears at times over the next few weeks, don't panic, I'll be working on it. mjb. _______________________________________________ [email protected] Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $11.47 Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spitfires/[email protected]
