hi mark, i want to thank you for all you do to help us roadster fanatics
keep in touch, and help each other. bob smith, ohio
> From: mark@bradakis.com
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:42:32 -0700
> Subject: [Roadsters] Spam, servers, service and such
>
> 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.
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