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From: Nilmandra <Nilmandra@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Subject: [stories_of_arda] Update on the SoA site
To: stories_of_arda@yahoogroups.com


The site may be accessed by going to

http://storiesofarda.com

or

http://stories.storiesofarda.com


Same site, same database, just a slightly different address. You may post
stories, reviews etc without worrying about them disappearing. For
now, update your links for SoA to one of those addresses. The usual home
page (http://www.storiesofarda.com) will stay pointing to a dead IP until we
decide what to do or if this new address is our permanent solution. Feel
free to let other readers and authors know how to access the site. As many
of you know, I have been quite sick and I just don't have the patience or
energy to deal with updating search engines and all the other stuff we'd
have to do right now. So word of mouth will be needed to let people know
how to access the site for now.

Just FYI - the site has been under attack, but they have been 100%
UN-successful. They're just annoying the heck out of us.

If you get an error message, let me know. A lot of very tight code to
prevent hacking has been added recently that could get you a 'You cannot
Pass!' error, and it is possible there might be hard coded pages looking for
the www in the address, which will give you a dead page. Send me a private
email, please, with a screen shot or all the detail you can provide about
what error you received. Screen shots are best, make sure we can see the
URL.

Thanks
Nilmandra






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I just tried to review a MEFA-nominated story that is posted on SoA.
At first, the link took me to a dead page, as Marta mentioned might
happen, but, having read Nilmandra's message about the alternate URLs,
I just went up to the URL and deleted "www" and I immediately got to
the story.

I suppose that if SoA isn't fully operational in a few days, somebody
will have to update all those MEFA links, but until then (and
hopefully it won't come to that!), reviewers can still get to stories.

viv

Hi Barbara,

Thanks for posting this so everyone is up-to-date.

I have emailed with Nilmandra, and she has suggested we wait a day or
two until things get more settled there before we make changes to our
own site, but we'll correct all the URLs at the MEFA site in a day or
two (as soon as I get the green light from Nilmandra).

In the meantime, if you'd like to review a story at SOA, you should be
able to review it by changing the "http://www.storiesofarda.com" part of
the link to one of the options mentioned below.

And if you'd like to nominate a story at SOA, you should be able to use
one of the SOA addresses Dreamflower gives below.

Marta

Barbara Rich wrote:

>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nilmandra <Nilmandra@comcast.net <mailto:Nilmandra%40comcast.net>>
> Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM
> Subject: [stories_of_arda] Update on the SoA site
> To: stories_of_arda@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:stories_of_arda%40yahoogroups.com>
>
> The site may be accessed by going to
>
> http://storiesofarda.com <http://storiesofarda.com>
>
> or
>
> http://stories.storiesofarda.com <http://stories.storiesofarda.com>
>
> Same site, same database, just a slightly different address. You may post
> stories, reviews etc without worrying about them disappearing. For
> now, update your links for SoA to one of those addresses. The usual home
> page (http://www.storiesofarda.com <http://www.storiesofarda.com>) will
> stay pointing to a dead IP until we
> decide what to do or if this new address is our permanent solution. Feel
> free to let other readers and authors know how to access the site. As many
> of you know, I have been quite sick and I just don't have the patience or
> energy to deal with updating search engines and all the other stuff we'd
> have to do right now. So word of mouth will be needed to let people know
> how to access the site for now.
>

[snip]

Hi Viv,

Nilmandra and her team have been just wonderful through this whole
incident. They've worked quickly and professionally and put together a
solution in great time. And an easy one - like you say, just trim the
"www" from the URL.

Tanaqui also informs me that she can change the MEFA links easily, too,
so I think she'll be handling that.

Btw, our team has been great, too. Several of our liaisons have been
keeping me up to date on what's happening with SOA and have proposed
solutions and responded quickly to my suggestions. And of course Tanaqui
has come up with some easy ways to fix the situation.

Really, I've been very impressed with both SOA and MEFA volunteers (and
everyone here as well) throughout this whole thing. We have a week and
change left before nominations close. If people had panicked or just not
replied as quickly, we may have had to extend nominations, which would
have made things much more difficult. Thanks, everyone, for keeping a
level head.

Marta

spacellamaprincess wrote:

>
>
> I just tried to review a MEFA-nominated story that is posted on SoA.
> At first, the link took me to a dead page, as Marta mentioned might
> happen, but, having read Nilmandra's message about the alternate URLs,
> I just went up to the URL and deleted "www" and I immediately got to
> the story.
>
> I suppose that if SoA isn't fully operational in a few days, somebody
> will have to update all those MEFA links, but until then (and
> hopefully it won't come to that!), reviewers can still get to stories.
>
> viv
>

And just as a point of clarification, because people get worried about
the term 'hacked' this is something else Nilmandra has posted:

"Just FYI - the site has been under attack, but they have been 100%
UN-successful. They're just annoying the heck out of us."

So the SoA site has been hacked--and the changes that have been made
are one of many ways the site is being protected at the moment. An
inconvenience for MEFA links, but a necessary one.

Just so no one worries.

Hi Elliska,

Thanks for clearing that up - it's a good point to remember, definitely.

Marta

elliska67 wrote:

>
>
> And just as a point of clarification, because people get worried about
> the term 'hacked' this is something else Nilmandra has posted:
>
> "Just FYI - the site has been under attack, but they have been 100%
> UN-successful. They're just annoying the heck out of us."
>
> So the SoA site has been hacked--and the changes that have been made
> are one of many ways the site is being protected at the moment. An
> inconvenience for MEFA links, but a necessary one.
>
> Just so no one worries.
>