Thank you, tech team

[Gaudere]

I'd just like to extend a "thank you" to everybody who worked to get the message board up:

We love you. You kick ass. Angels should flit about your heads and shower rose petals where you will step. May your servers always stay up and your lovers always go do...uh, you know what I'm saying. ;)

Anyway, thanks!

[Rysdad]

Ditto what Gaudere said.

Just curious...did you keep a count of the emails you received asking about the board?

[Tinker Grey]

Ditto!

[UncleBeer]

And a third from UncleBeer. You guys are great.

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Here's mud in yer eye!
Yer pal, UncleBeer.

[Arnold Winkelried]

I'll give more than a thank you.

Wet, warm kisses to the tech team!

[Globe-trotter]

You guys rock. Thank you!

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"I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought." - Seldom Bucket

[Billdo]

Kudos, kudos, and more kudos.

(I was going through serious withdrawal there and was actually forced to do some real work)

[Lucretia]

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

I'm very glad the board is back. Thank you thank you thank you.

[stolichnaya]

I didn't realize how much I counted on this board to get me through the day until it was gone for a week. Thanks from the low-post lurkers' peanut gallery. Crackers and phreaks, grow up.

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stoli

Well, blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo, as far as I can tell.

[John Corrado]

And a big thank you, thank you, thank you from this corner as well.

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JMCJ

Give to Radiskull!

[Milossarian]

Yeah, thanks.

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"You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment." - Bill Hicks

[ultress]

Thanks guys you are the greatest, although my boss wouldn't think so.

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I've learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.

[DAVEW0071]

Hear hear, aye aye, ditto ditto.

You guys kick ace. Thanks thanks and more thanks.

Big time.

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The Dave-Guy
"Since my daughter's only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?" J.H. Marx

[Yue Han]

So, were there actually two cases of beer sent to the tech guys?

--John

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Wo de qianzi shi Zhongwende.

New keyboard, new mouse, and the Dope is back! All hail the computer gods!

[RTFirefly]

Ditto to all the above - thank you, tech people, for putting our beloved board back up! :) :) :) :) :) :)

[docandjean]

More dittos. It couldn't have been fun, but we're all very grateful.

[Kat]

Thank you to the techs, and the mods, and the administrators, and Melin, and Ed, and Mike. And thanks to all the SD chat regs who kept me from going insane this past week.

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Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99.

Thunder's just a noise, boys; lightning does the work. --C. Brock

[MrKnowItAll]

Repeating the above: Bravo! Bravo!

And echoing Kat, thanks to the mods, admins, Melin, Ed, and Mike as well.

And just a quick addition:

Thanks to the kind folks of the Chicago Reader for putting up with all our shit and not saying "The hell with it" when the problems hit. If I lived anywhere near Chicago, I'd certainly be a subscriber.



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When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown. But it takes only 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

[Doug Bowe]

You don't have to live near Chicago to subscribe. My copies are mailed.
They arrive at the same time Cecil changes his weekly question. Very literate. Good criticisms.

[Snark]

Wonderful job, guys! Rose and I were actually searching for other UBB message boards to post to (oh, the shame of it!). This is THE board, as far as I'm concerned. Great job!

[Jake]

I'd like to add my thanks also. You guys kick ass!

[brooklyn44]

Amen!!
Renee

[TubaDiva]

Just curious...did you keep a count of the emails you received asking about the board?

Several hundred. So many that I've got to redo my computer, I corrupted some files in the white-heat frenzy of it, I guess.

Not counting Instant Messages, although I got enough of them too. This is how I learned my computer can take no more than 10 open IM windows at one time.

Y'all exhibited great patience and a good deal of restraint over the past week, with the exception of a few threats from the truly desperate. (The threats were mostly followed by deep groveling, so it balances out.)

I'll pass this thread on to the techs, so any good wishes you'd like to pass on, feel free. If you wanna send 'em booze or chocolates, send them to me, I'll test it for them first. :)

Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Throwing myself on that single malt hand grenade.

[Liberal]

Thank you on behalf of p******l h****t people everywhere!

:D

[running from Gaudere...]

[jab1]

Originally posted by Libertarian:
[running from Gaudere...]

It's not Gaudere you should be worried about...! Heh, heh, heh, heh....

Oh, and my thanks to the tech team, as well.

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>< DARWIN >
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Thanks to the techies for restoring our board - Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray!

I would also like to thank Melin for helping to get the word out. I know she took some very undeserved flak for this on another forum (Misc.facts.straight-dope newsgroup), but, when you think about it:
1) It would never occur to some of us to e-mail/IM Tuba or other SD Staff in the midst of a crisis like this. I assume they have better things to do than answer ?s from 4000+ members.
2) In this mailgroup, another member (Tomndebb) stated he had e-mailed Tuba & got back a message simply stating that it was a very bad day.
3) There was no helpful information posted anywhere on the site until quite late Wednesday night. I realize this was most likely due to the global nature of the technical problems, and not an attempt to keep us in the dark.

I have no idea how many people heard the straight dope about TSD from such unofficial/second-hand sources as Melin, but it would seem that they did the SDMB staff a big favor by cutting down on the interruptions and getting the word out.




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Sue from El Paso

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

[NickyLarson]

Tuba-you're a single malt guy too? :D
Really, thank you all for the work you do for us, the moderaters, tech people, everyone. When you stop to consider how much is provided to us for the cost of absolutly nothing, it really is amazing.

How do you do it, anyway? The only ad banner is the one for the Reader.

Signed--
-Curious

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"I drive way too fast to worry about my cholesterol."

[Anti Pro]

When the message board first disappeared I asked my oldest son to check from his computer, because maybe mine was just being mean. He verified that the site was blocked and then told me he'd seen many that never opened again. I was really dumbstruck, I'm SO glad that isn't the case here, and the Tech Angels worked so hard to bring you back from the cyberdead. I hope whoever did the hacking gets the 'Casino' punishment, where's Robert DeNiro????

----
Judy

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"Cheat is TEACH, backwards!" Doodlebug' Up the Down Stair Case

[Fretful Porpentine]

What they said.

[BoBettie]

I, too would like to extend thanks to the tech team. Way to go!
Zette

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"If I had to live your life, I'd be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror." - android209 (in the Pit)
Zettecity (http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html)

[Doug Bowe]

1)What's the tech team's favorite poison?
2)Can it be shipped c/o The Chicago Reader?
3)Is it legal to ship it in the state of Illinois?

[Zyada]

Bless you, bless you, bless you!

Many thanks from me - and if I get to Chicago, I'll be happy to show my appreciation in a more (ahem) personal way. :D

Y'all ROCK. Thanks for returning me to my drug of choice....



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StoryTyler (http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage)
"Not everybody does it, but everybody should."

[Rilchiam]

Thank you board!

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My only complaint is always having to wait for someone to come in the room and turn the set on.

[Falcon]

Thank you to everyone who got the board back up! (Even if it DID come back on a day when I was in a car and couldn't post.) :)

Ahh...this makes having to drag my ass into work tomorrow a little easier.

[phouka]

Another big round of thank you to the tech gods that restored the board, the admins, the mods, Ed, Melin, and all the others who got the word out.

Where do I send the chocolate chip cookies to?