Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2002 6:24 am
Posted yesterday by strredwolf on the KeenspaceAdmin mailing list:
"I could be funny with this, but that would get in the way...<P>"The forums on <A HREF="http://www.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>www.keenspace.com</A> will be going down, peramently, sometime in the next few days (between the time I send this message and the end of the weekend). When it does go down, it will first be brought down for "maintance".<P>"This will signal the begining of the end of Infopop's Ultimate Bulliten Board softare's reign of terror on the KeenSpace server.<P>"Using a custom, soon to be GPL'ed Perl script, almost all the data will be converted over from UBB to the newer software, phpBB. When that is done, and to our satisfaction, we will e-mail you again about the changes and the new domain we've set up for the forums (it'll be on the new server everyone's on).<P>"Now, it's going to be "almost all". You will lose the custom forum styles you've all known and love. You'll temporarly loose the
rankings until we manually transfer all of them over. And you'll lose all the 'reliablity' we had with UBB.<P>"What you'll gain is a few goodies, maybe some avatar pics features (I'm not sure, gotta experiment), and little pain.<P>"* YOU WILL RETAIN YOUR FORUM USERNAME, MOST OF YOUR INFO, AND ALL YOUR POSTS. * Your forum password may not make it -- I'm not sure if Perl and PHP are compatible with how they generate MD5 hashes. So far, so good, with the tests.<P>"I will put in a notice for those who have ***keenspace_alert*** tags, so folks should know about it and won't flood you with complaints.<P>"So, if you hear someone whooping it up, it's just Gav dancing a jig around the nuclear reactor over there. (HEY! GET DOWN FROM THERE! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, CAUSE WORLD WAR THREE?!?!?) <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">"<P>Just so y'all know.<P>-Shannon<P>
"I could be funny with this, but that would get in the way...<P>"The forums on <A HREF="http://www.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>www.keenspace.com</A> will be going down, peramently, sometime in the next few days (between the time I send this message and the end of the weekend). When it does go down, it will first be brought down for "maintance".<P>"This will signal the begining of the end of Infopop's Ultimate Bulliten Board softare's reign of terror on the KeenSpace server.<P>"Using a custom, soon to be GPL'ed Perl script, almost all the data will be converted over from UBB to the newer software, phpBB. When that is done, and to our satisfaction, we will e-mail you again about the changes and the new domain we've set up for the forums (it'll be on the new server everyone's on).<P>"Now, it's going to be "almost all". You will lose the custom forum styles you've all known and love. You'll temporarly loose the
rankings until we manually transfer all of them over. And you'll lose all the 'reliablity' we had with UBB.<P>"What you'll gain is a few goodies, maybe some avatar pics features (I'm not sure, gotta experiment), and little pain.<P>"* YOU WILL RETAIN YOUR FORUM USERNAME, MOST OF YOUR INFO, AND ALL YOUR POSTS. * Your forum password may not make it -- I'm not sure if Perl and PHP are compatible with how they generate MD5 hashes. So far, so good, with the tests.<P>"I will put in a notice for those who have ***keenspace_alert*** tags, so folks should know about it and won't flood you with complaints.<P>"So, if you hear someone whooping it up, it's just Gav dancing a jig around the nuclear reactor over there. (HEY! GET DOWN FROM THERE! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, CAUSE WORLD WAR THREE?!?!?) <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">"<P>Just so y'all know.<P>-Shannon<P>
