Posted by Rick [Rick] on February 02, 2001 at 16:03:02 {LlYNVMoC0U3m1gkntx/MFMFBt36Xyc}:
Dear friends,
I received word from a friend who has spoken with INFONEX that all shell accounts at Cyberpass including H2O's will be terminated this coming Wednesday, February 7, 2001. All information on our site will be wiped clean on that date. They will not negotiate on the date, and cited "lack of interest in shell accounts" as the reason for no longer providing shell services.
THOSE WISHING TO ARCHIVE POSTS SHOULD NOT DELAY. All posts will disappear in 4 days.
Please contact everyone you know who is absent from H2O and tell them. If you know of those who might want to save posts for future reference, please email them at once so they have a headstart on pulling down posts. Posts exist from numbers 150000.html to 320000.html -- or 150,000 posts total. Some earlier posts in this sequence might have already been saved by the late WitnetObserver. I'm aware that Joseph Malik and others are also keeping archives. Someone with their email addresses could help by notifying them at once of the board closure next week.
I plan on archiving all board scripts, BUT NOT POSTS. If I have time I'll try to tar the whole mess, but I can't promise I'll do this. (If I do, I'll provide links in a post to the tar files.)
Then I plan on doing some serious reflection on whether I should participate in reopening H2O on another server. I'll ask Jehovah through his son Jesus Christ in prayer if this closure is His will, or if He wishes the board to continue elsewhere. I have not been in contact with Kristin, Sandman, or other founders as of yet to have a clue as to where they want to go with this.
Please help squelch rumors on other boards hereafter that are contrary to the simple fact that our ISP ha s decided not to provide shell service any longer. All shell accounts not only H2O are being closed next Wednesday. However, I will risk extreme speculation in stating I'm alarmed at the suddenness of the closure, and baffled they would not give my friend a reason for not giving the standard 15-30 days. H2O is generating many millions of hits a month and others have suggested our ISP cannot handle the traffic. Recent problems preventing the execution of archival scripts that create "threads" and their silence when asked to fix these problems seems to indicate problems of unknown origin.
All H2O services will remain open until they are abruptly disconnected or allowed to linger on Wednesday, 2/7/01 or anytime thereafter. However, I will act under the assemption that closure could happen anytime on Wednesday, and as a precaution I will deactivate posting scripts on Tuesday at midnight Pacific Standard Time. I'll leave the postings viewable after midnight until such time they cutoff our site, probably on Wednesday.
I'm going to miss all of you. I feel sad it has to end, but all good things come to an end at their appointed time. If it's Jehovah's will, H2O will be back on the air from somewhere in the world.
In the interim I recommend visiting NewLight2's board, which link I ask him to post. I also encourage others to create boards for the many voices throughout the world that need to be heard. I'm also open to suggestions on the board between now and H2O's closing of where we can anonymously continue H2O should we choose to do so. This is a great resource and I hate to see it end due to business reasons of our ISP having no bearing on our own journey.
I can be reached at [email protected] and also email to H2O will be forwarded to that address at usa.net for an undetermined period of time.
Christian Love,
Rick
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I feel the thirst already,I need my H2O,looks like this
board is going to get some new posters.
LeeHiker