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CHRONOCENTIC/ZOWIE & OnTheDash Server issues...

CHRONOCENTIC/ZOWIE & OnTheDash Server issues...

Hello everyone,

Yesterday evening I noticed having difficulties getting the forums to respond as they should. Actually I [Jeff and others] have been experiencing similar outages off and on over the weekend and into last week.

Rest assured that the problem is on our end [specifically on the ISP which hosts the forums end] and not on your machine. Apparently the ISP who has hosted the forums for both Chronocentric and OTD since their inception is in the process of migrating to new "modern" servers and they have been running into difficulties.

We are working behind the scenes on various strategies to restore full functionality to the forums but at this time I have no estimate of when we'll be able to implement them so I can't even begin to promise resolution.

The situation bothers us too, but we're working on it and one of us [Steve, Sam, Jeff or I] will post updates as soon as we have something to report, [sigh] and can succeed at getting on the forum to report it.

We thank you for your patience!

In the mean time, we can try the temporary discussion forum I set up four years ago for inconviences like these...

Here's the link: http://www.network54.com/Forum/120110/... Bookmark it!

-- Chuck

Chuck Maddox

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