wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: Disaster! ... ( no disaster on April 2)
Pat Swovelin 2012-Apr-02 10:43:00
On 4/2/2012 12:57 AM, Willy Kaemena wrote:
> sending an April Fools joke on one minute before midnight California
> time is not fair......
Never trust old skydivers ... we're devious. =8^)
> hahahah everythings up and running.....
And the 3 events will be live in about 5 minutes.
> Long lives WWP ;-)
*Hoo-RAH!*
> Willy
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> On Apr 2, 2012, at 9:44, Willy Kaemena wrote:
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>> R.I.P. WWP
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> Willy Kaemena
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>> On 02.04.2012, at 08:59, Pat Swovelin <#removed#> wrote:
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>>> I don't know exactly what it was yet but something happened when I
>>> uploaded the 3 current events to the server a few minutes ago and it
>>> wiped out the databases on the server and then sent an instruction to
>>> the RAID backup unit to format itself. I almost threw up when I
>>> realized that everything, and I mean everything, is gone and
>>> unrecoverable. The only thing that wasn't wiped out are the WWP
>>> system's site files. This means that everyone will have to upload
>>> everything they're ever submitted to the WWP starting from day one. I
>>> have turned on a Special Late Editing for everyone for every event so
>>> you'll be able to get in without any problems. This Special Late
>>> Editing will stay on until everyone has notified me they've finished
>>> (please notify me off-list to keep the traffic down here). I've already
>>> started gathering all of my submissions and text from 6 different
>>> computers and a gaggle of hard drives.
>>>
>>> I'm _ver_y sorry this happened and apologize for the inconvenience.
Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large
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