Net talk: July 2006 Archives

I've set up the cathmoms list and entered subscriptions for as many of the members as I could find addresses for; a notice should be in your e-mail.

Just to update all the mailing-list users out there: my new server is partway up, so it's going to start processing the mail that's been sent over the past two weeks.

The bad news is that only my personal e-mail address works (I won't post it here, lest the spammers get it). Mail for the lists is going to bounce back to the senders. I'll start setting up the mailing lists again in the coming days.

Some folks have sent me lists of the previous subscribers, so I will re-enter those subscriptions again, and I'll announce it here.

Thanks for your patience and your prayers!

But come to think of it, please pray for the Schmiedicke family and the Delvalle family; they've both lost members in completely unexpected accidents in the past few days.

Last week my home PC server (gabrielmass.com -- don't bother looking for it just now) suffered a disk disaster. Two disks failed, so I had to resort to using my backup files. I am now saddened to find out that my system backup taken in February contains my personal files but not much else of value.

The biggest loss is all the data from my mailing list server, which has hosted several Catholic mailing lists serving hundreds of users for over ten years. The most popular list is "cathmoms", founded by Maria Compton Hernandez out in Kansas. Sorry, moms: we'll be able to start over, but the subscriber list is lost, as are the archives.

I also lost a few web sites I operated for friends; some of the material exists elsewhere, and so can be restored, but not all.

I will start the system up again so that users can subscribe and resume operations, but it will take a few days more. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. There are probably hundreds of e-mails waiting to get to my server, asking if there's a problem, if I was run over by a bus, etc. What a bummer.