Bernd (and BP'ers in
general),
Very bad news indeed, and
you have my sincere sympathies (as I'm sure you have from all BP members) about
the loss of your data.
This is something that has
concerned me for a long time with respect to BoundaryPoint being hosted on
Yahoo. I've read similar stories about other Yahoo users...luckily this
hasn't happened to us...yet. Is it inevitable? I don't know, but I
think we should plan for it.
If anyone has any ideas
about alternative hosting for BP, I for one would like to hear it. The
question of transferring existing data is also something about which we should
give great thought.
Bill
Dear
border-friends,
free of charge providers of web-space are a blessing
(as it costs
nothing) but can be a pain as
well, as they
have pop-up ads and sometimes tend to be off-air.
Tripod used to work
fine for me, yet after the merger and renaming
into Lycos the service has
been instable, and now it appears that Lycos has DELETED the
contents of my side! 45 MB of
pictures are GONE. Yes, you read
correctly.
I complained bitterly, but you guessed it: no reply. Yet in
the
members-discussion forum one can
read (in Dutch) lots of
similar scary stories, of innocent people
who lost everything at
Lycos.
Lycos does not bother to put any explanation or statement on the
main page of its portal, yet I
learnt from other members who have
lost everything this week as
well, that apparently last
Tuesday
there was a fatal error in parts of Lycos Holland, Germany
and some other
areas. If the
data can be recovered "they don't know" and probably
don't care.
Anyone who can suggest a reliable web-space host with fast
server
and at least 100 MB space incl.
FTP access, pls,
suggestions are more than welcome.
I'm even considering to pay for the
service, if it's ads and banner
free.
For the moment thus, it
appears that everything is gone, and if this
is the case, I'm afraid the
site won't be back in its old format for a while.
So, I'm
sorry, no more European borders at the moment, unless a
miracle happens.
Small
consolation, but can still offer my other site about the
internal
Belgian language border:
http://linguisticborder.tiscaliweb.nl
depressed
regards/verdrietige groeten,
Bernd
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