The world of the Internet is rife with change, and change often comes

with disruption. We're in the middle of a major change now - some

planned and some forced on us - that is bound to lead to some

disruption in service.

There is a major server upgrade planned for this weekend that we

planned to announce today. Part of the upgrade is a move to a new

mail server (the old one has been increasingly flakey). But the old

server, perhaps sensing its pending demise, went into a sulk and is

refusing to work at all. So the migration to the new system is taking

place now. That means we may not be able to send or receive mail for

the next day or two. (So how did we sent this message? We use a

completely separate system to send out the Daily Fred...and it's

'send only'...)

We're also moving to a new web server, a switch that's scheduled for

Saturday night / Sunday morning. If things go as planned (can you

hear the Internet gods laughing?), we should be back to normal by

Monday morning.

So...apologies if we're not availalbe over the next little while and

thanks for your patience while we suffer through some pain in order

to gain a faster, more reliable version of justFRED...

Cheers,

George

justFRED.ca