Redirecting a message from Dave
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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