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Oh yeah......

That'll teach me to read things properly!

As for not being on-line....we've got a virus at w*rk and I can't get on anyway - good job my parents have a computer (and the fact that my mums addicted to hootoo)!

Good. I've been getting tonnes (not to mention tons and long tons) of 502 errors. I got one just trying to make this posting!

No danger of me being online then anyway...

SEF: I'm going to assume I'm reading your post wrong...

Whoami?

Thank gawd for that! I've seen the 'this service is not available' message about fourteen times in the last half hour.

I look forward to being able to peruse this website next weekend without endless error messages.

Liz
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The 'Service Not Available' errors should have stopped now. The monitoring which is supposed to auto-restart the servers when they need it had itself stopped, so the auto-restart wasn't getting called. Internet Services have just restarted the monitoring, and the restart on the faulty server happened automatically. So hopefully it should be more reliable from now on.

So you need monitoring on the monitoring to auto-restart the auto-restart.

Yup

That sounds real cool geek-speek

Suspect I'll be at that time anyway.

Hmm.... is under the heading "Actions" in the Smiley list.

I'll have to think about that one

Thanks. It was getting really annoying, but I haven't had any trouble recently.

The posting titled '13 February, 2004: Advance Notice of DNA Server Downtime' has often appeared below that titled '12 January 2004: DNA Server Downtime Advance Notice', suggesting two things

a) that such postings be given a special status (perhaps just a posting date at the projected down time), so that they remain at the top of the conversation list until they cease to be important.

b) that previous postings have their title changed to prevent any confusion, perhaps to 'Old Notice of DNA Server Downtime'.

Evidently, it was too much to expect that the users continuing their debate in the superceded conversation would remain silent for a day or two, despite being experienced users. I have not posted such a remark in that conversation, to prevent promoting it further and so adding to the confusion.

Please take this posting to be a feature suggestion, if you feel that this is appropriate.

Old Hairy, the accepted order of things is that you read an announcement, then if you need no further information you unsubscribe from that conversation. In this way, continued "chattting" inconveniences nobody. If there are further announcements, or changes to a previous announcement, TPTB invariably announce them on a new thread, rather than adding to the existing one.

"The 'Service Not Available' errors should have stopped now. The monitoring which is supposed to auto-restart the servers when they need it had itself stopped, so the auto-restart wasn't getting called. Internet Services have just restarted the monitoring, and the restart on the faulty server happened automatically. So hopefully it should be more reliable from now on."

Unfortunately, they haven't. I started getting the messages.

It should say that I haven't stopped getting the messages.

I've had three of them in the last 90 minutes... If every message is connected to a restart, there's going to be a lot of worn out HDDs at the BBC...

Make that four; this is my second attempt at posting this.

yes im getting a few ...

a few...
thats a bit of an understatement, i am getting one nearly every time i try to post anything
see i juust got one as i tryed to post this...

I was going to point out that the thingy needed kicking again, as I've been getting more errors than ever since it was announced to be fixed, but I've been beaten to it...

Besides the error messages, which sometimes close Internet Explorer, the time clock is messed up. It is giving impossible times for when postings were made, and reducing the ages down. When I looked at the same conversation twice, a posting actually got younger.

Something is serously wrong here, and doesn't seem to have been fixed. Whoever You Are, If You Are, please do something (though surely you have better things to do).

It is NARTHUR6 (of 0-7) which I'm not seeing at the moment. So that one might be down.

By the Tetracts of the Decad, what are you talking about, SEF? Is it something that everyone here knows about--if so could you please explain it anyway? I'm new here.


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