I was wondering what happened to saphire's place?
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Still There
It's still there, pretty much like it always was.
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Domain Propagation
I feel I have to add a few explanations to the above message, so no one thinks I'm an idiot.
There's a part of the internet which is ancient and creaky and might surprise you with its primitiveness. Technical fans of the internet will tell you it's a feature and not a bug and shows the genius of the internet. Whatever.
When you register a new domain, the information has to get propagated through the network before any of the domain servers know where to find it. The IP addresses of servers have to be registered against the name, and the info propagates through the net in a process somewhere between a bucket brigade and a tree. It can take over 24 hours and sometimes up to 72 hours to get into all the nooks and crannies of the 'net. Meanwhile, users of the internet will only see the new domains after the DNS servers that they use (or their service provider provides) receive the necessary info, whenever that is. In other words, not everyone gets access at the same time.
The same process happens when an update drops a domain. That has to propagate as well. In my response above, you can see that I was still seeing the domain after others weren't. That's because the domain server I have my router pointed to still had the old info cached. Meanwhile, others were losing access to it as their local DNS servers updated.
I'm very sorry that my response above made it sound like I was denying there was a problem. I had no way of knowing what was going on, unless I had thought to check the registration record, which I hadn't. Mea culpa.
Two Ps in a pod
Maybe you're having trouble finding it because you misspelled Sapphire.
P's you say?
Well that explains it! I was wondering why all those stories at SAFIRE'S PLACE
were all political and pundit-ty and not very TG at all...
~hugs, Laika
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Safire
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
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URL registration
There is/was a temporary problem with Sapphire's URL getting renewed. If it isn't working now, it should be soon.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I've more been wondering
When, exactly, will Sapphire's be updating again? There are several stories available there (and nowhere else) that I'd like to see continued, but there hasn't been ANYthing done since last January, and even that was reposting an old series from another site.
Melanie E.
The Short Answer
... is never.
Sapphire has apparently lost interest in operating the site on any active basis. Can't blame her. Life intervenes, time gets scarce, dealing with people can be annoying, plus the system she was running required a lot of manual labor on her part to post each story. I got into a similar situation with a site I operated (a non-TG hobby I have), but at least in my case I eventually handed it over to someone else who wanted to run it. That took me a few years to do. Letting go of your "baby" is difficult when you've built something from scratch.
I wish her well, and peace.
Oh!
That's too bad. If I had the knowledge/resources/etc. to do it, I'd take it over for her if she would let me. On the other hand, given that my particular tastes aren't quite as liberal as hers regarding content, it would be quite a bit harder for me to handle posting the stories that are more out of my personal comfort range.
Melanie E.
Another reason Sapphire's is not updated
Is that a number of her good serials are by authors who are not updating their stories.
It’s not given to anyone to have no regrets; only to decide, through the choices we make, which regrets we’ll have,
David Weber – In Fury Born
Holly
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Holly