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richfed
Sachem

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May 13 2002

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Posted - February 15 2004 : 12:37:38 PM

Mornin' Pilgrims!

Guess I'll start with the NOT so fun & games this time ....

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... Ok, so it appears the little transition we went through worked out pretty well. Speed is up. But ... many residual problems. Since the change-over, MUCH mail has bounced back to me, mostly of the board-generated variety
[though not all] , and especially that which was headed to domains like AOL, Earthlink, Yahoo, and, it appears, most International addresses. I don't know what was up with that. I noticed - hard not to when more than 50% come back

- that the Gathering "mass" mailing thingie wasn't working too well either - that routes through mohicanpress.com - So, I redid it, going through my local ISP here in Marion and that seems to have done the trick. No bouncebacks, anyway. Hope all who were supposed to did receive it. I'll post it down below, just in case. In any event, that all seems OK now. BUT, my own E-mail account is ALL screwed up - can't send ... then I can send ... can't receive ... than I can receive ... Seems like a DNS issue that needs to be resolved. Then, as some of you probably know, our SQL database [that which this board reads from] became disconnected from the rest of the site. I guess that was MIA for an hour, or so. Got that fixed and then the WHOLE site was inaccessible for me. I'm not sure what youse all experienced.

All in all, a very frustrating day. One that has me looking ... again ... for a new web host. It's not so bad that it happens, but when the explanations aren't there, well ...

My plans to work on
On the Trail of the Last of the Mohicans ... The Expanded Edition went out the window because of that. Oh well, always today & tomorrow [a Holiday - President's Day! Thank you, George & Abe!]

Oh well ...

But, Fun & Games!!!! Who's this, do you think? Well, I see we're "disconnected" again ...

Will post the pic later, hopefully. Hint: It's not me or Lainey! Later ...

WW - Not sure why that Smiley didn't work for you. I played around with it yesterday & it truly is a dead smile. No worka fa me, either. Yet, I see nothing wrong.

Gathering News: See 2004 Gathering Attendees for who'll be there - so far.

As posted elsewhere, Russell Means & Joanne Shenandoah both have their flights booked at this time! A great relief -

For those who did not receive it, here's the Gathering E-mail from yesterday:

Hi folks -

Just to let you know, this will be the last such mailing you will be receiving, UNLESS, you have officially signed up for the 2004 Great Mohican Gathering.

A few of the addresses are apparently no longer valid, and before we start to annoy anyone, we will just mail to actual attendees.

IMPORTANT: One other thing - someone has charged back a $100 raffle ticket purchase. This is ok & understandable, BUT, I have no idea who it was. Please drop me a note so that I can adjust our raffle purchase information. It would be greatly appreciated.

OK, for those of you who have not signed up, here are a couple of links to use if you decide to join up in the future [and we sure hope that you do!]:

Gathering Page: http://www.mohicanpress.com/2004_gathering.html

To Sign Up: http://www.mohicanpress.com/2004_gathering_portal.html

To Add To The Coins For Chingachgook Fund:
http://www.mohicanpress.com/2004_gathering_guest.html

A complete list of 2004 Gatherers can be found on the Mohican Board!

Thanks for bearing with me all these months ...

Shopping Cart: Sometime after I am able to access my site again, we will be installing a Shopping Cart system on the Frontie

Rich
Mohican Press

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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood

USA

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November 27 2002

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Posted - February 15 2004 : 1:41:23 PM

Rich, just to let you know what I have been experiencing... hopefully to help you pin it down:

Yesterday, there were a couple of times that I was not able to get to the boards, although I could maneuver around the site. This happened once in the afternoon and once in the early evening. In between, I was able to get to the boards. As you say, it sort of drifted in and out. So far today, I have not had a problem. I got some sort of message which I did not write down, that indicated there was a problem with the server.

Hope this helps.