It looks like www.mbz.org and it's mailing lists are down. I know many list members also post here. Anyone have any insight into what's wrong?

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Tjohn

82 300 SD
77 450 SL (gone)

be sure you are in good standing.
I have had them block my IP address and could get on the site.

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79 240D my current toy
42 years a Diesel addict

240D sold
250SE sold
220D sold
280C sold
280S sold
300D (2) sold
300CD sold
300DT sold
300SD sold
380SL sold

Hrm. I certainly haven't done anything to get bounced. Has anyone made it on to the site, or gotten a message, within the last 3 days or so?

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Tjohn

82 300 SD
77 450 SL (gone)

Hummm

Looks like the last one I got was #2211 on July 1. Dont think I said anything nasty enough to get bounced either

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Stevo, same here. I don't know what's wrong.

Do you think that bigbabbo screwed Rusty with his IP in some way?

The Diesel-tech, Diesel and 124 lists are all down--my inbox has been too damn quiet over the last few days. I feel like a Borg that's been cut off from its network.

Yeah, when you get used to 50 -200 messages a day its quite a shock quitting cold turkey. I've burned up almost as much timing checking my mail to see if the site's up as I would have to read the messages.. .

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Tjohn

82 300 SD
77 450 SL (gone)

Rusty doesn't run the mbz.org site. He helps support it. I'll email Richard and find out whats up.

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84 300DT Puke Yellow. Totalled after 438,000
84 300DT Orient Red. 169,000 (actual mileage may vary)
2002 Explorer EB (wife's)

what advantage is the MB mail list over this bulletin board? Mail list is such an archaic way to do things. That does not make it bad but...???

I cant see any advantage at all. Many of the same members on the list as to whom are here. Just as much tech. Just as much fun, much easier to read/respond on bulletin board than mail list. No email program limitations too.

Oh well to each his own.

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"If anyone knows other lessons I need to learn, please tell me. I'm tired of learning them the hard way".
by JerryBro

The Glow Plug Wait: This waiting period is a moment of silence to pay honor to Rudolph Diesel. The longer you own your diesel the more honor you will give him". by SD Blue

My normal daily life; either SNAFUed- Situation Normal... All Fouled Up, or FUBARed- Fouled Up Beyond All Repair

62 UNIMOG Camper w/617 Turbo, 85 300SD daily driver- both powered by blended UCO fuels

...actually, I think each compliments the other rather nicely. I value both as treasured resources.

I haven't gotten any messages from diesel, dieseltech, or 116 (not like that is abnormal though...) for the entire weekend. I can access ***************, mbz.org, but when I go to connect to the mail-list link (lists.mbz.org) I get a timeout.

Hopefully they are progressing and we'll have both of our addictions running strong soon

John
'79 300SD (2)

Heh, call me old-fashioned, but I think web bulletin boards are a big step backwards from mailing lists and Usenet...

Anyway, I also haven't got any messages since digest #2211. Glad to see it's not something I did.

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AlexTheSeal: hack mechanic, inadvertent drifting champ, builder of infernal devices, professional epistemologist

'87 300D Turbo, roadtrip mileage champ (for sale!)
'92 Isuzu Trooper, mudder extraordinaire (for sale!)
'82 Honda Silverwing, cockroach of motorcycles
And various boring daily drivers...

Reply from Richard (mbz.org):

It's down. It'll ba back as soon as I can get it fixed. It's complicated.

The website(s) are up, but the machine that processes the mailing list is rather badly hosed and it's a very old BSD system and there are "issues" reading the old drives on anything else.

It's a day away from being done from when anybody asks; Hopefully tonight but of course I said that last night.

I'm building another server to handle the mailing list traffic
(non-trivial in quantity, I do more than Mercedes lists here)
and it may work out that that machine is up before we
fix/upgrade the old one.

"soon" is the best I can do. I don't actually know when it'll
be back up; I have loaded all the subscription lists and junk
on another of my servers and that may in fact come up tonight.
Or not. But it'll be soon. I'm jonsing as bad as anybody else,
rest assured.

Richard

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84 300DT Puke Yellow. Totalled after 438,000
84 300DT Orient Red. 169,000 (actual mileage may vary)
2002 Explorer EB (wife's)

Anyone have the latest update on the lists? It's been a week now...