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

[James Sumners]

I wasn't placing any blame. Just stating what had happened in the
past. You guys have done a good job getting us back up and running. It
is appreciated.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:04 AM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> 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


-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
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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