What is up with FPN?

[heraclitus682]

FPN down for anyone else?

[Moxoftritonytes]

Yes, it is down.

[reprieve]

FPN down for anyone else?

Yes, I think you crashed it.

[heraclitus682]

FPN down for anyone else?

Yes, I think you crashed it.

Shhh,,,

[Moxoftritonytes]

Oh, it`s up again.

[Flounder]

Works for me. And there's nothing up with FPN, it's fine. If anything, I'm down with FPN, maaaaaaan. Kudos to Wim for personally dealing with that david1600 problem a few months back.

[Jon Szanto]

Flounder, it had been down at various times last night and this morning (West coast US times, that is). As to how any of this gets handled, we'll see. The fact that the party in question is a mod there (a move that was part of my reason for leaving) adds to the interest.

[Farmboy]

What is a David1600 problem?

For what it is worth, I often get server failed to respond error. I usually chalk it up to a bad Internet connection and go back later. If they really have as much traffic at peak as indicated elsewhere I can understand the bandwidth/server side limitations.

[Penne Stilografiche]

What is a David1600 problem?

Basically, he sold a bunch of pens described as in working condition but they all we in need of restoration. Wing banned him from the FPN after getting wind of this.

[Farmboy]

Does he/she have a real name?

I like to keep track of such. At some point I may once again participate in the selling side though not likely on-line.

Todd

[Farmboy]

I now get:

Service Unavailable.

Technical description:
504 Gateway Time-out - The web server is not responding

Or

Response Error.

Technical description:
502 Bad Gateway - Response Error, a bad response was received from another proxy server or the destination origin server.

[Moxoftritonytes]

FPN is automatically shut down if it gets too much traffic. Courtesy of their provider.

[whych]

They were down at 01:30 GMT with a msg saying they were doing maintenance.

[Tony Rex]

But, but, ...

Hope they can sort it out quickly...

[bassmannate]

But, but, ...

Hope they can sort it out quickly...

Yup. Started getting this same screen. Just means something's broken since you're not the only one.

[Manny]

[ethernautrix]

I didn't imply "secret", but since you are semanticizing, please be so good as to give your definition of "private" in this instance.

Simple colloquial convention; as a way to differentiate between a public message (a post in a thread) and one directed to one or more members of a smaller subset of the total membership.

It certainly does not mean the message is not subject to being read by others or as in this case, parsed by a filter.

The thing to remember is that there is no complete privacy in today's communications network whether phone, internet, email or SMS.

Actually, to me, "private" does mean that the message will not be read by anyone other than the addressee. An automatic "bad words" filter is fine. And I don't worry about the administrator being able to read private messages under extraordinary circumstances. However, I would find it extremely distasteful, overreaching and potentially dangerous, if anyone who was named a moderator could do so on an ongoing basis.

There is a distinction between computerized scanning by internet companies like Google, which like the "bad words" filter is automated and impersonal, and the possibility that actual human beings would be able to snoop on you by reading your private messages.

And the "no privacy in communication" thing is a red herring. We are not talking about governmental action here. It's a fountain pen forum, for goodness sakes. What they can do, technically, should be constrained by decency and necessity. And I hope it is. No matter what, they should clearly disclose just who can read members' private messages. To me, that's unclear right now.

That mods were able to read PMs was news to me and a tad distressing as I had had, let's say, a situation with another fpn member who became a mod. I'm not saying said mod read my PMs, but that he was able to made me very uncomfortable. All of that is ancient history now, but since then I'd rather the impersonal auto-bots of Google and hotmail "read" my e-mail than someone I know read my so-called private messages.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Agreed. It's just wrong.

[85AKbN]

This page can't be displayed

•Make sure the web address http://www.fountainpennetwork.com is correct.
•Look for the page with your search engine.
•Refresh the page in a few minutes.

Fix connection problems

[whych]

They had a page up before that said they would be down for a week.
The fact that the nameserver record has gone, means they are using some kind of dodgy entry for their nameserver records.
Soon, it will be a requirement for the nameserver record entry to be registered with the domain name which should stop this kind of message as well as cutting out many of the dodgy sites around.