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Ben E Lou
10-03-2004, 10:58 AM
...check the front page for updates as to what is going on. This message board is on an entirely different server from the front page, so even if our board server had a complete crash, there is a very good chance that the front page would still be there. (This was the case over the weekend, and also during the board crash last November.)

As far as we can tell, this crash had nothing at all to do with our individual board. It appears that all message boards on the same server as ours were down. I was here at the time of the crash, and our board wasn't very busy at that time.

Also, everyone needs to know that we have an "alternate" location to continue discussions on my web site (www.benelou.com (http://www.benelou.com/)). Several of us were there talkin' college football yesterday. It might even be a good idea to bookmark the alternate board.

Finally, in case of a Gamespy-wide outage, check the Off-Topic boards at other busy text sim locations for info. I posted updates at .400, GDS and OOTP, as well as at IHOF and FOBL. The .400 and GDS folks even stickied the threads for me, and for that I thank them.

Sorry if anyone was inconvenienced, but as I said, I'm fairly certain this one was completely out of our hands from the get-go.

--Ben

Ben E Lou
10-03-2004, 11:00 AM
Dola:

Link to discussions from Friday evening to this morning. (http://www.benelou.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?;act=SF;f=2)

Dutch
10-03-2004, 11:13 AM
I book mark it about 1 hour ago...which should have been my first hint that the FOFC board was about to come back to life. :)

Ben E Lou
10-03-2004, 11:15 AM
I book mark it about 1 hour ago...which should have been my first hint that the FOFC board was about to come back to life. :)LOL.

No, the real reason the board is back up is that about 2 hours ago I took the time to re-updated the front page, and also to go to OOTP, .400, GDS, IHOF and FOBL to post that I thought we wouldn't be back up until tomorrow. :p

Noop
10-03-2004, 11:17 AM
Well I took a wild guess checking the front page... I never checked it for like months... Viva La Noop!!!

Ben E Lou
10-06-2004, 06:08 AM
Bump...un-stick.