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For those of you who don't already know, Scifi-Art went down on Monday. It was taken down by Communitech (their host) with no warning and no explanation. To the best of my knowledge, no one at SFA has been able to get in contact with anyone at Communitech to get answers.
The reason I post this here is that a message was posted on SFA about two weeks ago saying that Scifi-Art would "suffer a major setback between the 10th and 20th of Jan." I generally think the majority of the people here are a respectable lot, and I sincerely hope none of you are responsible for the cancelation of SFA. Of course, if any of you are, I suggest you confess so the group as a whole doesn't get the blame, as many at Scifi-Art have already assumed that SolarFlare was responsible. Of course, if this group is not responsible, they should send a message to SFA insuring them that that is the case. I obviously don't want to see an innocent group blamed for smething they did not do.
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Shadow, that was my first impression (its happened before, even though the shitheads at communitech advertise unlimited bandwidth), but the fact that someone posted that prophetic threat two weeks before is more than a little strange. I'm not quite ready to write that off as mere coincidence, and I can GUARANTEE that there are many at SFA who jumped to conclusions even without reading that threat. Understand that I am not accusing SolarFlare of anything, but I think you guys should be aware of the situation so you can deal with it and prepare for anyone coming your way.
FYI, SFA is back up on a temporary server, and they will soon have their own dedicated server (I believe Tachy acutally owns his own box), so SFA should be much more stable in the future.
Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Seanr: Could you post that message along with the IP and the email address that went along with it (assuming that SFA is up and running)? That way we could see who it could possibly be. Also perhaps you could tell us where the temp site for SFA is.
I doubt that any one of us here is responsible. We're just as surprised (and shocked) that this happened. One thing that I do know about: SFA's account was terminated due to various TOS (Terms Of Service) Violations. CC has been trying to get further information of what's been going on from Tach and MikeW. I haven't heard anything else from him recently.
BTW: Tachy's going to run his own server? How much would that thing cost him?
------------------ I can resist anything....... Except Temptation
[This message has been edited by Tahna Los (edited January 19, 2000).]
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We may have a large group of psychos and crazy people here but I don't seriously think any of us would pull a stunt like that. Those of us capable of doing it are not that type of people. Thanks for the warning.
------------------ Death before Dishonor! However Dishonor has quite a disputed defintion.
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While we do house a large proportion of society's criminally insane at Flare, this is no inference of guilt. We are, after all, incredibly thick.
------------------ Gene: "I AM Star Trek" Yvonne: "You can't sum yourself up in so small a package." Gene: "SMALL?!!"
------------------ I bet when Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying "Don't forget the big heavy eyebrows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky eyebrows too, and then they would get mad and eat the snowman.
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I didn't do it. I couldn't do it, and although if I could I might have been tempted to try due to my annoyance with the previous flamewar, in reality that feeling lasted for all of six seconds, and then my brain reaserted itself.
Ultra: Be careful, you are dangerously close to self-implication. Although I don't think you did it either.
This is probably one of those things that just happens to occur at an inopportune time.
Or it could be that guy who was attempting to register all those foul usernames here a week or so ago... Could we be being played against each other?
------------------ Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
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Ultra Magnus, only if you guys (meaning CC or other admins here) are responsible for what happened to SFA. If not, than taking out your board would be kind of pointless now, wouldn't it.
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I talked to Tachy. The post appeared on the Millenium CGI forums. There was a thread with a link to that site on SFA, but that was after the last backup and before the crash, so the link is lost. If anyone knows the URL, I'd appreciate it if you could post it here since no one at SFA has it anymore.
No one here was involved, no one here ever WOULD be involved, and i'm insulted that you'd even think so. There are some people that believe that EVERYONE here at Flare hates everyone over at sci-fi art... and that's not true. I personally don't give a rats ass what you guys do, and i'm tired of this board always having to worry about what the sci-fi art board is up to.
Why don't we all just drop this stupid male ego trip thing and decide to ignore eachother completely? .. Why do we all have to be so immature about this? ... Hmm? So we don't like eachother. So what? Was there anything written that said we had to? Was there anything written that said we had to hate eachother, either? No. There wasn't.
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