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> Sorry if I've got this wrong, but as far as I remember, you had some
> responsibility for the Britdisc archive, which I've just found to be
> down.  If there's a long-term reason for this that I don't know about,
> sorry.  Just that I've found it a highly useful tool in the past, and
> would be sorry to see it go!

Apologies to everyone who's been inconvenienced by this downtime.

Basically, the problem is that the account that BritDisc is stored in (the
Bears' club account) has been suspended automatically (a process that
happens yearly, unless it is manually re-registered). As I don't know who's
in charge of the Bears this year, I can't do a lot about it.

One point of note is that the archive will not be storing new messages while
the account is suspended, so the archives will have a gap in their content,
when the account is eventually restored.

I'm looking to move the archive I had before to another server some time,
but I've been working about 11 hour days recently, so it's not going to
happen anytime soon.

Ralf.