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Aug 26, 2002, 2:18pm

For those of you who've been keeping score (all 5 of you), AWNews.com is
officially down, and will be down for quite some time. For those who
haven't been following along, here's the scoop:

Cybor, the original founder of AWNews, decided he no longer had the time
to maintain the site. So, both he and I agreed to transfer ownership of
the site, including hosting and the awnews.com domain name, over to me.
Initially, he gave me FTP access to the site and told me he would get
the hosting and domain information.

Over the next few months, I tried (unsuccessfully) to get the
information from him. Then, Cybor decided that, rather than handing over
the accounts to me, he would just let them expire and I would have to
open my own accounts. And that's exactly what happened. On August 1st,
the domain name account expired and several days later, the domain
disappeared from the Internet.

However, I couldn't register the domain under my own name because the
domain registrar was still holding on to the domain even though it had
expired. After emailing them, they said that it would take upwards of 2
months before the domain would be released to the public and I could
register it.

Once the domain went down, I began a more frantic attempt to contact
Cybor in order to either get the login information from him so I could
renew it under my name, or get him to renew the domain and transfer it
to me.

After numerous emails and phone calls, I finally reached him last night,
only to be told that he no longer has access to the domain account, and
that the transfer of accounts, both for hosting and the domain name, is
not a straightforward process. Furthermore, he had proceeded to ZIP up
the entire AWNews directory tree and database, wipe it from the server,
leaving only the two ZIP files for me to download, and change the FTP
account so I couldn't log in.

So that's the story, and I'm left holding the entire AWNews site on my
own computer until I can find proper hosting for the site and get the
domain under my own name. And AWNews, for all intents and purposes, is
gone from the web, at least for now.

But, rest assured, AWNews is not down and out just yet. While I'm
waiting to get hosting and the domain, I'll be posting AWNews stories
here to the newsgroups, unless someone can offer me a more viable
temporary solution. Again, they will be prefaced with the [AWNews]
Heading, so those of you who want to filter it out can do so.

Sorry to those who actually care, but I will get AWNews back up and
running eventually. Neither rain.rwx, nor sleet.rwx, nor snow.rwx, nor
idiot founders, shall keep the virtual news from getting through! :P

--
Goober King
AWNews Editor in Chief
robrod at prism.net

Aug 26, 2002, 3:52pm

How much space do you need Goob? And how much bandwidth do you use per
month? I can set you up a temporary subdomain on my server. Email me! :)

SW Chris
chrisw10 at skywalkeronline.net

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Aug 26, 2002, 4:35pm

Why not get hosting from your existing phpwebhosting where the site is
located/was located or as you say take your own payments iwhich will them
allow you have full access rights to the domain.

Phpwebhosting allows the use of subdomian only, without any main domain.
Then if you so desire take awnews domain.com as soon as it is available.

Its simple when you look around.

Look on the web


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Aug 27, 2002, 5:03am

IPowerweb.com has nice packages, and nice bandwith.

Aug 27, 2002, 5:11am

OR, i could contact my hoster and get ya unlimited bandwith and space.. till
ya found a settled home hoster ;-)

Aug 27, 2002, 2:15pm

That's horrible GK >.< At least there is one advantage to having the news
posted in here... It makes the newsgroups a one stop spot to catch up on all
the gossip, and the great news =D I suppose you should be thankful that at
least we have this newsgroup, and have a way of communicating, and spreading
news at large :o)

Poseidon

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Aug 27, 2002, 6:20pm

Actually, I always considered AWNews to be in direct competition with
the newsgroups, since this is usually the place where people first hear
about happenings in AW. My hope was that eventually I would start seeing
people say "Did you guys see that story on AWNews?" in here, rather than
reporting on a story someone heard about in the NGs. ;)

Still, I've begun to learn that even the newsgroups aren't as widespread
as most people think. Back when I first announced AWNews' domain name
problems, and the subsequent new address for the site, I kept getting
tgrams from people asking when AWNews would be back up. Obviously, they
didn't read the post, or they would've known about the alternative address.

And, as usual, the main reason they don't read the NGs is because of all
the sillyness and pettiness that goes on in here and frankly, I don't
blame them. If it wasn't for the masochistic pleasure I get from
verbally smacking other people around in here, I'd be right there with
them. ;P

[View Quote] > That's horrible GK >.< At least there is one advantage to having the news
> posted in here... It makes the newsgroups a one stop spot to catch up on all
> the gossip, and the great news =D I suppose you should be thankful that at
> least we have this newsgroup, and have a way of communicating, and spreading
> news at large :o)
>
> Poseidon
>


--
Goober King
Bringing respectable insanity back to the NGs...
robrod at prism.net

Aug 27, 2002, 8:13pm

[View Quote] How I do it....

I'll probably read a couple or so bodies worth of headers of a new thread up
to the point where it goes into another dimension..
The newsgroups as I see it... exaggerated of course and not even close to
actual statistics is.
5% actual interesting or informative content
3% actual interesting or informative replies
92% useless bashing, correcting and most likely wasted band width by those
doing the bashing and correcting.

When done I press Ctrl + a, Right click, then click on the Mark as read..

Hey Goob,
I do believe you meant to say Sadist and not masochistic. Either way, I
guess you'd be right. ;)
Anyway, Good luck at getting to your AWNews goal.

This post is actually part of the fictitious 92% except the part where I say
good luck to Goobs.

*In his best Forest Gump impersonation.* "And that's all I have to say
about that."

Bits

Aug 28, 2002, 9:05am

"goober king" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:3D6BD968.50008 at utn.cjb.net...
-snip-
> Still, I've begun to learn that even the newsgroups aren't as
widespread
> as most people think. Back when I first announced AWNews' domain name

I think usenet is the most under used and under valued function of the
net. When people get online it's more or less coincidence if they also
find usenet and learn how to use it. If I look at the numbers of
different people posting in the Swedish se hierarchy they are in no way
representative of the total population with Internet access. I believe
it's the same with AW. Also, it has allways struck me as odd to have
such a different technique as newsgroups complementing a 3D live chat. A
public forum should be built in to the AW browser so that more users
find it and use it.

dZap

Aug 28, 2002, 1:16pm

True, but this gives some people something to look forward to, lol. People
may just start skipping all of the *useless* stuff, and go straight for
"[AWNews]" =)

Poseidon

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Aug 28, 2002, 1:57pm

That would be most cool. :) And hey, if it brings people back to the
NGs, so much the better.

[View Quote] > True, but this gives some people something to look forward to, lol. People
> may just start skipping all of the *useless* stuff, and go straight for
> "[AWNews]" =)
>
> Poseidon
>
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--
Goober King
At least he serves *some* purpose!
robrod at prism.net

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