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I wish I knew what the heck happens over there - are they getting hacked, is someone idiotically trying to update code and breaking things... what?
But this is what I get when I go there:
Provider error '80004005'
Unspecified error
/forum/inc_header.asp, line 116
Over at trains.com they are saying it's a short maintenence thing...
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But this is what I get when I go there:
Provider error '80004005'
Unspecified error
/forum/inc_header.asp, line 116
Don't know Jeff maybe they banned you

I got there no problem, didn't log on though. Might have been an intermittant thing
Cheers Willis
It was indeed down for maint. this morning. Longer than anticipated, apparently.
There has been a lot of moaning in the N scale forums about them being super slow. I thought they were also, until I found even here was slow, and my own web site, turns out the teeenager was running his filesharing application (Limewire). I killed his wireless access, and boom, instant speed again. Needless to say, Limewire is firewalled :O
But I don't notice any speed issues over there. Don't know how busy the HO side is, but N can get pretty busy, not as bad as MR/Trains.com is.
Apparently they didn't get it all fixed. It's down again (10:45pm, Pacific).
I'll be darn. I was there about 20 minutes ago, I noriced that TrainBoard.com is down also, they have been up and down for the last week or so. I wonder if some of these outages aren't more internet related then website? Also the number of security issues that come with forums is terrible, I know when we had clients using messageboards/forums, it was a race to get all the security patches in before the hackers and script kiddies found the sites with forums and owned the site or the server. I don't envy their position on offering a free service to people, then have problems, then take the beating I see Atlas and other forums take when the members aren't happy.
I think that's why ModelRailroadForums is home for me, I have yet to see a rant against Bob or even the flames I see at other boards.
Good job Bob!!
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