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Re: Nickb missing?

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post #18

From NM's whois, he's based in Ottawa, Canada (there's an exact address in fact). Someone who lives nearby can check in with Prakash or Miles and then do some knocking or doorbelling.

Left a VM. called a couple of numbers. Not sure if that is his current address.

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Re: Nickb missing?

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post #20

From NM's whois, he's based in Ottawa, Canada (there's an exact address in fact). Someone who lives nearby can check in with Prakash or Miles and then do some knocking or doorbelling.

I've met him (in Ottawa). He hasn't responded to emails since early July. That address is a multi-unit building. I don't see that it's really appropriate for me to go knock on his door though. There is a thing called privacy and he does have family.

Thanks for that info, Owen.

Re: Nickb missing?

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New Mogul is great. Hope this gets resolved.

It's hosted at Godaddy. The domain is current. And it's not that he didn't pay a hosting bill - when that happens at Godaddy they make the site forward to a godaddy page.

That means that someone manually took the site down.

Re: Nickb missing?

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post #20

From NM's whois, he's based in Ottawa, Canada (there's an exact address in fact). Someone who lives nearby can check in with Prakash or Miles and then do some knocking or doorbelling.

I've met him (in Ottawa). He hasn't responded to emails since early July. That address is a multi-unit building. I don't see that it's really appropriate for me to go knock on his door though. There is a thing called privacy and he does have family.

Would you set a deadline on it though, say 5 months if nothing happens, more, or never?

Re: Nickb missing?

#28

New Mogul is great. Hope this gets resolved. It's hosted at Godaddy. The domain is current. And it's not that he didn't pay a hosting bill - when that happens at Godaddy they make the site forward to a godaddy page. That means that someone manually took the site down.

  > That means that someone manually took the site down.
Since the News.YC code (which NewMogul also uses) runs in a single Scheme process, it could have shut down for any number of reasons: it might have crashed, failed to start after a server reboot, been killed by the OS or hosting provider due to a memory leak, etc.

I don't know what kind of monitoring nickb might have set up, but if he's not responding to personal email or phone calls, it seems reasonable that he simply doesn't/can't know that the site is down.

Re: Nickb missing?

#29
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've met him (in Ottawa). He hasn't responded to emails since early July. That address is a multi-unit building. I don't see that it's really appropriate for me to go knock on his door though. There is a thing called privacy and he does have family.

Would you set a deadline on it though, say 5 months if nothing happens, more, or never?

I'll email him again, but I don't see much more than that being in any way appropriate. If I had been to his house, maybe, but I haven't.
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