On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Luís Oliveira <luismbo@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Drew C <me@drewc.ca> wrote:
> 2) I was told that the business who runs the dedicated service are shutting
> down, and the box will go with it.

This is something I didn't know. I spoke to several c-l.net users at
ECLM and nobody was aware of this.

The downtime really happened all of a sudden, I was trying to migrate things one at a time, but the dedicated hosting company did not quite do something 'right'.

http://common-lisp.net/news/2013/03/05_the-server-must-move.html was really the first time I was made aware of it, and the first time asking for help.

> 3) I asked for help, and others who knew apache. exim and mailman to please
> help me because I do not know those things.
> 4) I did not receive any help, and the box was going to be shutdown unless I
> paid a lot to keep it up an extra month.

Again, I follow clo-devel@common-lisp.net and this was never mentioned.

Probably my bad. I tried, it was rejected as spam, and I could not seem to send it legitimately before things really went down.

> Given that I am the only admin, well, I am glad to be told of what others
> think of me. thank you ;)

Please don't take this personally. Surely you realize that there was a
gross communication failure. All that users saw was c-l.net going down
without warning, c-l.net being down for a while, followed by it coming
back up with different software and a site redesign.

Sorry if it came of as taking it personally... and I agree that there was a communication failure. Again it is all likely my fault, but this all happened so fast that I did not do exactly what I wanted/needed.

Cheers,

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Luís Oliveira
http://r42.eu/~luis/