[ale] ale list now linked with google groups ale list

[aaron]

There was considerable lag on posting status of the list & systems
and, as a person with posting privileges to our site, I'll apologize for
that. In hind sight, I could have posted sooner that "solutions are
being evaluated, crews have been dispatched", but that's about
all I could have offered in the first week.

Understand that for the first 5 days there wasn't much definitive
information being exchanged among the active volunteers either.
If we erred, it was on the side of patience.  As soon as the extent
of the problem was known, a viable solution was agreed on and
the procedures and time frames for implementing it confirmed
we posted notice to the temporary Google list and the web site.

Kind of fun to do some forensics of the chronology now that the
pressure is off:

The list was down for a couple days Jan. 24 to the 26th..

When the list came up again the announcement of need for a
new sysadmin and hosting solution was posted January 27th
and some possible candidates were approached.

The list went seriously south Jan. 31st. We kind of sat back
and waited for the resurrection again, figuring it had always
come back before... but not so this time.

The Xilogix hosting offer came in around Feb. 2nd, but there
was some lag (and a bad CC address) in sharing that with
volunteers and getting everyone's confirmation that this
would meet our needs.

The temporary google list and more public discussions were
started on February 5th.

I spent most of Thursday, Feb. 7th connecting all the parties and
communicating hosting and server arrangement requests with
Xilogix.  Xilogix was very responsive to our requests, especially
considering that they are doing this as a courtesy.

Once all the wheels were turning and we were certain of the
direction we were driving the first full status report was posted
on ALE.org on Feb.10th at 3:49am, immediately subsequent
to the same basic info being posted to the google groups list. 

Work schedules generated some wait states over the following
week, but James and I got together Feb.17th and spent the
Sunday afternoon doing a remote OS install and update. 

I posted a progress report to the site and google list early
Monday morning, Feb. 18th.  Chris uploaded the subscriber
lists that afternoon and had the DNS transfer posted,  and
James got the list configured Monday evening / Tuesday
morning.

We were mostly back on the road by Tuesday, Feb. 19th,
with only a couple of small potholes to navigate.

peace
aaron






On Thursday 21 February 2008 17:26, James Sumners wrote:
> Actually, I think he was laughing at the fact that the website wasn't
> updated until about five days before the list came back online. Maybe
> it will change with the new team of administrators, but the website
> hasn't been a reliable source of information about the list in the
> past.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM, James Taylor
> <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
> > If the web sites on the same server as the listserve it's down too. I get 
it.  I even thought about that.  So be it.  If I have no status then I can 
live with that too.
> >
> > -jt
> 
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> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
> 
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> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
> 
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