On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:33, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
Yesterday I sent mail to wikidown @ both
bomis.com and
wikipedia.org;
both mails were bounced. Since wikidown(a)bomis.com was apparently getting
spammed, I can understand if it was closed, but what's the new wikidown
address?
Tim Starling's been putting together a developer contact list (including
phone numbers etc). We could probably set up a new, less spammable,
e-mail forwarding address.
Also:
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status
This was during the server problem yesterday of which
I only heard today,
since I get only digests of Wikitech-l. It might be a good idea to have
another computer that, when larousse/pliny is down, can be assigned the
IP .197 or .199, webserve all requests with a message saying when the
Wikipedia will be back up, and cache the e-mail to the mailing lists.
A regular desktop computer could probably handle this.
It would be a good idea to have another computer... :)
I should point out that during the majority of the outage on larousse,
pliny took over its IP and was serving requests for
www.wikipedia.org,
albeit limited to read-only and missing images (being outside the
database).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)