Ogben Schmutzel Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 Hi All, Just a suggestion for the mods/admins to consider. Kept trying the site yesterday which I presume was down. I had no idea what was going on, how long it was going to be down, or even if anyone that could do anything about it knew. Could the admins or whoever keep a mailing list on their local PC for such situations so that members could be informed what is going on and when it is going to be back? I appreciate that this would have to be on their own email account given that the site is down, but there are ways of masking the addresses of the other recipients and I think of the sender too. Just a thought! Regards.Oggy. Quote
mumof4 Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 Idea sounds sound, but even we knew nothing about what was going on.The whole server was down and it was not just our site that was down.We have no way of knowing what server GTEUK is on for his private email addy,Even if he could have sent us an email, he would have had to send thousands of them to the members of all his sites. Quote
Gteuk Posted June 28, 2006 Report Posted June 28, 2006 Not too bad when a site is down or a server for that matter but when the whole datacenter is down it is a problem ? The problem is nobody on the site including me saves the email addresses on our local PC its just not wise (data protection and all that). Even if we did it would be a mamoth task and could clog up the system, I would say for every 1000 members there is 200 unused email addresses all of which will bounce back to the sender that means between all the sites I would get over 2000 emails back telling me the email address does not exist. Not to mention those who have auto reply functions. Rather than sending emails its best to spend time trying to show willing and resolve the issues. In this instance it was a routing problem of the PIPE into the datacenter. Quote
Ogben Schmutzel Posted June 28, 2006 Author Report Posted June 28, 2006 Ok, just thought I would see if you felt it was a possibility. Anyway the sites not down much is it. :lol: Thanks both for responding.Oggy. Quote
Ogben Schmutzel Posted August 2, 2006 Author Report Posted August 2, 2006 Maybe this sort of thing then, when the site is back up?Oggy. Hi, Just a very quick email to all registered users athttp://www.anglingpictures.com/ to let you know that the site is up andrunning again, after a brief outage. Thanks for your continued support and we look forward to seeing your latestfishing photos. Tight lines Elton - www.AnglingPictures.com Quote
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