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Re: Part of my Webspace was Deleted!

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From: Geoff Buckingham
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <VntGAAAw2ws2EwBh@whirlnet.demon.co.uk>,
	Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.demon.co.uk> writes:
> [Hopefully there's just a simple explanation for my rather AOL-style
> subject]
> 
> Something odd must have recently happened to my webspace. I shall
> explain...
> 
> The main bulk of my webspace is taken up in the subdirectory /discog/
> with well over 400 files. (It's complete rubbish and I haven't updated
> it for a year, but I retain it as it generates hits and some people find
> it useful). This generates between 4 and 12 MB of bwusage per day. I
> often keep checking my bwusage, and from Tuesday I was no longer having
> /discog/ listed. This is not unusual, as an occasional lull is not rare.
> 
> I received an email from someone today informing me it was giving a 404.
> Instantly I investigated, and sure enough, he was right. I went to my
> ftp account, and the /discog/ directory had disappeared!
> 
> I had not done *anything* to cause this, apart from the uploading of
> some new stuff in a new subdirectory a week or two ago.
> 
> Could someone offer a plausible explanation for this dissapearance? I
> have since reuploaded it all, but I am extremely curious to know what
> caused this.
> 
Someone (if it wasn't you change your passwords now) ftp'd to the box and 
renamed the directory at about 10.41 on January 24:

Renamed /u/demon.co.uk/w/h/i/whirlnet/discog to
+/u/demon.co.uk/w/h/i/whirlnet/forsyth/discog

-- 
GeoffB 
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From: geoffb@pandora.noc.demon.net (Geoff Buckingham)
Subject: Re: Part of my Webspace was Deleted!
Date: 1999/02/01
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