Just to confirm what some of you are reporting. The archives at escribe.com are down due to a blown power supply on the server. They should have been back up already, but are not. So I'll be in touch with Scott again to see what's happening.
The story is this: Scott, the owner, and a couple of others, put e-Scribe together some years back with the aim of providing free archiving services to owners of mailing lists such as ours, while selling advertising on the basis of page views. As of today, Scott is the only person remaining of the team, pays for bandwidth and server upkeep out of pocket to the tune of $200 a month. I don't know how much advertising revenue is generated, but it is not, and has not produced enough to prosper as a business model. This is understandable given the rise of Yahoo! Groups and other large providers of mailing list hosting with integral archiving (however crippled it may actually be...). Scott is personally committed to keeping it going, but only out of a sense of obligation, from what I can tell. And work on the system takes a back seat to all the other demands on his time. If the current problem is worse than just the blown power supply and the system has more damage than that, we may be without service for longer than we would like. Once the server is back up I would like to ask any who have appreciated the archives to make at least a small donation to the Community Chest for the list. This can be reached from a link on the list archive's main index page. Meanwhile, I would appreciate, privately, please, any suggestions for alternatives for the long term, should e-Scribe finally disappear. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
