Daniel Mayer wrote:
Argh - For the 20th time over the last 3 years: CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE PUT A DONATION FORM ON THE WIKIDOWN PAGE!!!
When I am finally successful at wheedling the secret method of updating the error pages from the unpaid volunteers who run the cache servers, we'll see what we can do.
Also, if we have a donation form, then these outages would be mostly self-correcting since the extra revenue will help us to add more redundancy to the system so we can at least go read only until we are completely back up.
It generally is considered to look very bad, though: "begging for money" or "holding the site ransom".
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)