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Dave Winer has sent an email to a mailing list I'm on, asking for help getting word out about a change in the redirection policy for former weblogs.com users:
My poor server just can't handle all the redirecting that's going on, so I'm going to try another approach.
We're going to use the buzzword.com machine to do the redirecting and the serving of content. So all the load will be on that one box. It's the fair way to go, I can't have the services I depend on being unreliable in order to handle the redirecting. That was the problem two Sundays ago, and it's back now, and I have no time to deal with it.
So... I have to now give you all a heads-up, that the redirection will last 90 days, and will be on a best-efforts basis. That is, if an emergency happens, it's conceivable that the redirection won't last 90 days, but my intent is to provide it for that period.
After 90 days, I'll stop flowing weblogs.com hits through this server. I think that's September 18, also the time when the 90-day free trial on buzzword.com ends. It seems reasonable to expect that by then the search engines will have reindexed the sites, etc.
In the outage last week, I heard from some that there wasn't enough notice. So here's notice. Now how to communicate this to the people with sites is another question altogether. I have no idea to do it. Maybe you all could ask one of last week's pundits for some advice.
Dave |
If you know people who are affected by this, please let them know.
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by D. Weinberger at June 21, 2004 06:16 PM
Comments
Dave (and Dave), this is great stuff. I mean that sincerely, honestly, authentically (and all that jazz).
By spreading word in this way (snarky bits aside), asking for a little help from your friends, you've shown that you've at least made a genuine attempt to communicate the situation beforehand. That's all anyone, imho, can ask.
Bravo, you trick-learnin' old dawg, you ;-)
Posted by: memer | June 21, 2004 11:25 PM
Um, is that notice supposed to be an eye test too? That last para, displayed at normal font size, was way too small to read.
Posted by: Suw | June 23, 2004 04:55 PM
I think this is precisely the right way to get the word out. Post it on the front page of scripting.com, post it on the front page of buzzword.com, and send it to likely mailing lists.
I would also try sending an email to the email addresses of the registered weblogs.com users. Yes, most of them will bounce. However, some of them will get through to people who would otherwise be unaware and that's a win.
Posted by: Bryant | June 23, 2004 06:21 PM
Suw, no, that's just a weird anomaly. In the original entry, I dropped the font size by one increment from the default, but in this comments page it's coming out just weird. No editorial comment implied.
Posted by: David Weinberger | June 23, 2004 08:13 PM