[78-L] The 78-L was down, it is now fixed.

[David Lennick]

Of course we can't 'like' posts here, unless we actually activate our fingers 
and type replies. Just like our parents used to in the olden days.

dl


On 11/26/2018 1:09 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> AMAZING!!  Hey Grace! The header sounds like I once was lost but now I'm
> found.  I was blind but now I see. Actually, I feel a bit blind here on
> the list without those colorful cute record labels. It has been noted
> that I was to blame when the list shot up in traffic volume when I joind
> in 1997, and I guess I was also the one who summoned everyone over to
> Facebook.  Email is awkward for me and I rarely check it.  It always
> gets screwed up on my phone.  But now that it is back the only traffic
> has been about the 48 ban which could be better done on Facebook with
> pictures, sound,and links.
>
> Plus, of facebook we could show everybody pidtures of our Thai Slave
> Girls -- although we should go over to a Joe Happy group for that, not
> my Fan group!
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com      l
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The 78-L was down, it is now fixed.
> From: Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid>
> Date: Thu, November 22, 2018 5:59 am
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
>
> After six weeks with Facbook's 78 groups and a zillion reports of thrift
>
> store finds (with colourful label pictures - so cute, aren't they) this
> is a relief. Five informative posts in a weeks time on this list is
> better than the pointless flow on Facebook. People don't ask questions
> on Facebook! They only tell us about their acquisitions. And yes, they
> may ask questions: about how much their new acquisitions are worth.
> Kristjan
>
> On 2018-11-22 07:18, Malcolm wrote:
>> Yeah, we were! I had thought that the list had succumbed to Facebook
>> and was shut down due to lack of participation/interest. I'm really
>> glad you got it back up and operational, Ron! I remember the Thai
>> Slave Girls spam, too. I still have the post around here somewhere.
>> Nice to hear from old friends and I'm very glad we're back in bidness.
>> Hopefully more folks will log in over the next week or so. Have a
>> great Thanksgiving, all! Malcolm ******* On 11/21/2018 3:15 PM, David
>> Lennick wrote:
>>> Thanks Ron! Yes, we were missing it. dl On 11/21/2018 7:06 PM,
>>> ron at fial.com.invalid wrote:
>>>> Oops, the 78-L list server (78online.com) seemed to be gone for
>>>> several weeks. The last post was on October 4, 2018. I got a phone
>>>> message from Kristjan Saag today informing me of the problem.
>>>> Thanks, Kristjan. Due to switching mail reader programs from Eudora
>>>> to Pegasus Mail, my filters were sending renewal emails for the
>>>> list's DNS lookup into a junk mail file. I never saw their bill. So
>>>> easyDNS dropped the service, since the bill was not paid. Also,
>>>> emails from members about the list being down were also going to my
>>>> junk mail. I never saw them, I get hundreds of junk mails per day in
>>>> that folder. I run the 78-L server locally in our business
>>>> server-room, and it was working fine the entire time at IP address
>>>> 50.196.1.216. So I could go to that address and still see the web
>>>> page for 78-L and still send mail to that address. But Internet
>>>> lookup of anything for the domain 78online.com was broken. The host
>>>> name of the server (klickitat.78online.com) could not be looked-up
>>>> to get its IP address. The DNS service is paid and up and running
>>>> now, but it will take an hour from now until all servers worldwide
>>>> are updated. So in about an hour, sending mail to 78-L at 78online.com
>>>> should work again. I am very all, sorry for the inconvenience. Ron
>>>> Fial --- 78-L list administrator PS For you old timers, you might
>>>> enjoy seeing the very first web page for the 78-L list back in 1992
>>>> on the shellac.org/wams site. This access from Cornell University
>>>> was the original web server: http://www.shellac.org/wams/w78l.html
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