Scott wrote: >The best.com mail server went down with a hard disk failure yesterday, >and best.com has announced that they don't have backups of the server >and won't even be bringing it back up as the mailing lists were a free >unsupported service. The MetaCard list will be moved to a new server >soon, but I've no idea about the HyperCard and Serf lists (and if they >didn't do manual backups, they're in bad shape now). Actually, the hard drive failed sometime last Tuesday. Complicating the matter was the fact that the engineer who wrote the list server no longer works there. The HyperCard list has moved to eGroups. As the technical moderator, I had a fairly current (9/4) subscriber list and have submitted it to eGroups for their large group (500+) enrollment procedure. They advertise a 24 hour turn-around, but that didn't happen. Meantime, the list is up & running and folks can subscribe by sending e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (subject and content irrelevant). So far, eGroups looks pretty good, despite the slow turn-around (I wonder how many new lists they got last week). They probably even back up their hard drives! -- Paul
