Name:    Steve Kennedy
Email:   steve@pacair.com  
Subject: Message Board Meltdown!
Thread:  5
Time:    Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:39:10 UTC

Sometime Wednesday night something happened to the Message Board message index file and it got the ultimate corruption... "0" file length.


This file was the key to the database that kept track of how many messages and their thread relationships and chronological order.


My domain host does NOT have a reasonably current backup available so I will try to restore what I can from a month-old back-up index as a temporary measure. This means that messages posted from about October 20 forward to the present will not appear.


I will also be searching for a replacement Forum/Message Base system that can import the current messages so we can get an even BETTER system on-line.


For now, I cut-over the new web page design a bit prematurely because it has a working (although almost unpopulated) message base. I will do what I can to get things back ASAP, but due to my schedule and the holidays this may be a multi-week set-back.


For now, this new web page is avaialable at the following URLs:


www.musicmanamps.com
www.musicmanamps.info
www.musicmanamps.org


The old web site with the broken message base is still online at:


www.musicmanamps.net


I am actually excited at the possibilities a MUCH improved message board with different subject forums can provide us! I just wish it wasn't forced on me at this busy time of the year.


With luck, it might even be a Christmas present for the group! I will do what I can.


If anyone has any first-hand experience with any forum/message database systems feel free to make recomendations or tell me what I should try to avoid. The old messages still exist, each file is a sequentially-numbered HTML file. I will givce preference to systems that can import the old messages.


Thanks,


Steve