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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 3:09 pm
in drahied's profile there was a message to the moderater link.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 4:09 pm
CNdeariso, we have your EMail. Since it is the weekend, it may be a while before we get back to you.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 4:24 pm
no problem. i totally understand. thanks!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 8:16 pm
Just FYI, you can go to the profile of any moderator or admin and there will be a link to click to PM the moderator account.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 7:44 am
k, tkx
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Administrator
Board Administrator
08-06-2005
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 1:04 am
ATTENTION Due to a severe failure of our previous server, the board has been offline for most of Sunday April 9, 2006. At this time, we are still reconstructing parts of the board on a new server. During this rebuilding, the board is not functioning completely as it normally does. Because of this, we strongly advise not posting anything important until we have everything back up and running fully. You may also experience more file-lock errors than usual due to the current configuration. What you see here now is the latest backup from the board taken on Sunday morning at approximately 7:52AM board time. Anything posted after that time is lost permanently. Should we have any further problems, it may become necessary to restore again to the backup just made, again losing any posts from this time on. We apologize for this inconvenience and we assure you we are working on fully resolving these issues as best as we are able. We will post here again as soon as we are sure the board is back to 100% functioning again. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Draheid
Board Administrator
09-09-2001
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:25 am
(Reposted from the Questions to Moderators thread) There isn't a great risk to posting anything at this time. I just wanted to warn that, in the event I have to restore the board from a backup again while finishing up the move, everything posted since that backup would be lost. So don't post anything you can't repost, if necessary, after the move is complete. At this time, I am told I can finish the moving process later tonight so, after that, things should be working fine again. As for the front page, the main missing part of the board is that MySQL database. I've modified the main page to not look for or use that so the basics (top two sections) are now working fine and you can access the board from there as usual again. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience and thank you all for your patience while we get things back in order for you.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:58 am
Clutterfree, I moved it for you. Link
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Draheid
Board Administrator
09-09-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 4:12 am
Once again, we lost a portion of the user database. I have restored the previous good copy just now, which should give everyone access again. We seem to be having trouble with the old style user file on this server. The database functions, which would eliminate this problem, are still not available at this time. Until we can switch to the database, it looks like it might happen again. We apologize for this inconvenience.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 6:33 am
Thank you for your hard work keeping our cyber home up and running.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 6:49 am
We can put up with inconvenience. Thank you for continuing to work on the problem.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 12:31 pm
Adding my thanks for all your hard work in keeping this place running! I felt like a ghost last night, being able to watch others post but not being able to do so myself. Hmmmm....maybe I should change my user name to AWhoami, so I won't be at the end of the alphabet and get lost again! Of course, it could be all my fault and it was me that jinxed the T-Z'ers yesterday! If I changed my username, I'd just end up jinxing that cluster! 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 7:31 pm
I'm sorry, but you ALL have been eliminated. Seriously, the user database appears to have been completely wiped out, except for us mods. We're working to restore it. Please be patient! I'm so sorry!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:09 pm
Oh look! You're all back! We have Draheid to thank (again)!
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Citruscitygal
Member
08-07-2003
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:12 pm
Thank you so much Dra and everyone else who keeps the board going. I know there used to be a place to donate to the cause. If there is a place to make a contribution, where would I find it?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:13 pm
Citrus, there isn't currently a place to donate. If/when we set one up, we'll let you know!
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Draheid
Board Administrator
09-09-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:14 pm
I have temporarily disabled accepting new member applications as that seems to be what wiped out the user file completely this time (except the two new user applications - heck of a way to take over a board, eh?). I've just been on the phone with the tech working on the server and he's pretty sure we can get the necessary fixes in place tonight or tomorrow and hope to have the board back to 100% by tomorrow night at the latest. I will post more information here as soon as I have something to share.
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Oldtex
Member
03-06-2006
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:19 pm
Thanks for all of your hard work!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:27 pm
thank you dra and the others. i was going through with'dra'wal! and you all thought dra wal was what you put up before text messaging, er, i mean texturing, huh!
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:38 pm
I thought I got dumped for saying something stupid.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:40 pm
I thought I got dumped for my 7:18 post in This or That!! I saw no posts after that and I couldn't figure what was so wrong with dryer sheets 
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Draheid
Board Administrator
09-09-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:43 pm
We have the board fully functional again (as far as we can tell) and we should not have any more issues with the user database again. Keep in mind that all 'new message' and 'last accessed' dates were reset once again with the switch to the new system tonight but this should be the last time. Thanks again for your patience. Enjoy the board!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 2:20 pm
I truly appreciate you guys!!
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 6:42 pm
Great! I thought I was banned. Thanks for not banning me!
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Draheid
Board Administrator
09-09-2001
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 7:55 pm
We apologize for the brief 'weirdness' earlier. Our server technician was working to discover why the board has been running sluggish. We think we may be on the right track after the changes he made (which temporarily caused the odd results earlier). We will continue to monitor the board with this new configuration and make more adjustments if they become necessary. For now, we're anxious to see how these changes perform during a more active period such as during and after the show tomorrow night.
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