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@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)