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

Tue Nov 27 02:04:38 PST 2018

Seems it's more exciting, these days, to activate our fingers like 
toddlers do: pointing at bright illustrations in picture books. No text, 
just elephants and doggies. Or phonograph horns and record labels.
Kristjan

On 2018-11-26 19:31, David Lennick wrote:
> 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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