The Vortex list was down for a time from May 12 until May 13. The
service provider, Eskimo North, has been having difficulties since
2009. While they may get through this, they are clearly overwhelmed
and dependence on Eskimo North for anything is risky.
I hope that Bill, here, has a backup of the list archive and of all
subscribers, kept current, because it's not impossible that it could
all disappear without notice.
It is easy to set up an echo of the list, say on yahoogroups or
googlegroups, if this has not already been done somewhere. The list
owner's email address, sent out with the introduction to the list
upon subscription, however, is an eskimo address. I hope Bill won't
mind me suggesting that he use another email provider for contact. In
2000, as I recall, the outage was for days, and it was difficult to
find out what was happening, since the same provider was used for the
eskimo phone service. Under current conditions, eskimo is unable to
respond to phone messages and service emails, there is a huge
backlog, but there is a backup yahoogroups list that can be
subscribed to: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/EskimoNorthUsers
Looks to me like our Bill is subscribed.
The son of the owner, operating Eskimo under difficult conditions, in
the absence of the owner, which absence may last for months or more,
was able to communicate through the yahoogroups list.
