fictionary@plover.com still down

[Pierre Abbat]

On Sunday 10 February 2008 14:03, eLLioTT morEton wrote:
> (1) Does anyone out there have any idea what is the matter, or how to get
> ahold of mjd without going through plover.com?

Trying to connect to port 25 of mail.plover.com, I get a connection, but not a 
mail server's greeting. That's pretty odd, as normally port 25 is handled by 
the mail server program, not by xinetd. The previous time we had problems 
getting to plover, it was a DNS problem; that's not it now.

> I hope this just turns out to be a temporary glitch with plover.com, and
> that we can soon complete the OWLING round.  (I'm still accepting ballots,
> by the way, since I wasn't able to send out the final reminders.)  But if
> not, we'll need to implement the Continuity of Fictionary Plan, which
> means we'll need to make that plan.  So:
>
> (2) If fictionary at plover.com is permanently down, we will need to look for
> new diggings elsewhere.  To do that, we will need a list of current email
> addresses of listmembers, which we can't get from plover.com because it's
> down.  I hereby volunteer to collect those email addresses.

I can run the list, if you like. I have two Linux boxes up and can run the 
list as a manually maintained list on chausie until I get Mailman up on it.

Sandy Crowley was lurking, and may have voted for something, but I don't know 
how to reach her, or if she still lives here.

Pierre