"support@magweb.com" Topic

Email was not delivered –

"Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<support@magweb.com>:
Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long."

I have re-sent message but is there a problem at magweb? Never encountered that message before.

Gracias,

Glenn

I've been trying for @ 8 months the establish membership. the web site fails.

Yes, I was very interested in the site but I am beginning to think it is a dead site.

AFIK MagWeb content is still there for existing members. The site has been having ongoing server issues and the owner has decided not to accept new subscriptions until these issues have been resolved.

As to when that will be I don't know. The lack of new material since September (or maybe longer) has been greatly frustrating. When MagWeb is working it is well worth the price.

How long has it been this way. Server problems do not take months to correct unless you ignore them completely.

Russ Lockwood from MagWeb here from the OMM shop, where Dennis pointed me to this post…

MagWeb feels a little like the Monty Python character who declares, "I'm not dead yet…I think I'll go for a walk."

MagWeb, its server and backups taken out when our ISP was flooded and struck by lightning, is taking time to reconstitute. The 12 years of programming and patches and fixes and updates that run MagWeb were gone. That is not easy to replace…and yes, the months slipped by as we worked with our ISP. We've been with the ISP or its spinoff since the beginning. Yes, we know loyalty only sticks around so much, but I'm also not a big fan of kicking a guy when he's down.

One thing that this catastrophe allowed was a good look at overhauling what we had created. We continue to work behind the scenes on improving MagWeb while keeping the archive open for existing members.

Although it pains us to turn away business, we are not taking in new members until everything is working again.

If you want to contact us, use my personal e-mail:

lockwood@voicenet.com

lockwood (at) voicenet (dot) com

Or, you can call: 609-397-4265. The support e-mail remains a casualty of the server death.

MagWeb will be at Historicon, same spot as last year, so please stop by and say hello.

Russ

Russ Lockwood of MagWeb.

Russ

Thanks for the reply but really, this info should be on the front page of the site. Since it's running, a simple text edit would suffice.

And I don't mean to kick anyone while they're down, so sorry if that was presented. Your reasons seem sound but when I've faced things like this with an ISP, I've moved on to better providers.

Good luck and I hope to join when it's all back up.

As a previous member living in Europe (Sweden) who is very keen on re-joining Magweb service, I find it extremly annoying that for over a year now I'm not even able to reach main page of Magweb. Regardless of your technical problems, I find it hard to accept that you cannot even set up a simple text page explaining the issues.

@Minondas

I canīt reach the Magweb site from my home, too. But as I tried it with another provider (in a hotel), it works. The site is still reachable

Is it probably a problem with your provider?

Russ Lockwood here at Dennis' shop (going over Historicon and my Snappy Nappy and Hyperspace Hack rules), when he pointed this out…

MagWeb should be offline while I re-tool it, although it may be cached depending on where you are. Have to see about that…

Russ Lockwood from the OMM shop…

Hang tight I will wait.

Russ Lockwood here at Dennis' shop (going over the Snappy Nappy review in Battlegames magazine, Sep/Oct 2009 issue, page 36-37).

MagWeb will not make a re-appearance until 2010…

You can always email me at lockwood@voicenet.com

Russ Lockwood from the OMM shop…

It is a bit tacky that longtime subscribers have to learn of the de facto demise of MagWeb from outside sources. And no refund to boot!

Can't think why I would re-subscribe.

Russ is refunding subscribers a portion of their membership based on how many months they were able to access before things went sour.

I was a subscriber for a couple of years, and enjoyed it. I had to let my sub lapse for a bit (out of work) and when I went to resub found it was no longer available to me.

I'll wait. It's a great resource.

Steve

Any updates when Magweb will be back?

Rich.

I too was a former subscriber. When I went to re-subscribe, I was unable to do so. There was quite a bit of interesting content on the site and I would like to be able to re-subscribe. Is there any word as to when Magweb will be back up and available?

Something new about Magweb? Had anyone contact with Russ? Any information, when it will be back (or if it will be back)?

another six months since the previous post and no news

So sad….

Since computers are really cheap right now; many in the $300-$400 range, would it make sense that some new server equipment might be reasonable enough to obtain so that files may be transferred?
Russ are you starting from scratch?

I'm not sure I understand the purpose anymore. How many wargaming magazines are there, still, in "print" ? Hasn't everybody already gone to the web?

There are lots out of print that are nice to have. Starting with all the old Couriers.
I wish they were back just to show people that the rules they are paying now $40-50 for are nothing new.

I understand that there's an archive of old stuff. But why would anybody want to buy a subscription to a service, when there's probably nothing new to add anymore, since 95% of all wargame writing now goes directly onto the web. And the 5% that doesn't is just a few high-end glossy magazines that a service like MagWeb could never afford to buy the rights to.

And not only Wargaming magazines…MagWeb had a very good range of military history magazines.

Where do you find that in the net?

I think it may be back! I've re-registered – waiting for a reply, but it could a hopeful sign … I certainly found it useful in the past. Cheers.

While sitting here at OMM, flitted though TMP and found this thread…

Just to clarify, MagWeb is no longer in operation (ended back in 2009) and will not be coming back. In fact, I don't own the .com URL anymore -- some one else picked it up when I let it lapse earlier this year (last I checked it had a picture of Justin Bieber on it -- go figure). All the rights reverted back to the publishers. The company, Coalition Web, Inc. is liquidated. We stopped taking any registrations for memberships back in 2008. If you registered for something, it is not us.

MagWeb was a nice run for a while, but an ISP lightning strike and flood in 2008 zapped the server and backups, combined with a down economy made me realize in 2009 that it was time to stop. I had kept a primative version running for our members at no charge from June 2008 to May 2009, but then it became too much, and it was time to close. Credited unused portions of membership circa 2008 back to members (about 3/4 of them were of the $4.08 USD variety) and there you have it. Investigated bringing it back in a variety of modes, but the cost effectiveness of it was not to be.

But thank you for your kind thoughts. MagWeb is now just part of wargaming history…although it is somewhat immortal. A couple months back, The History Channel reran a Modern Marvels show about weaponry where I was one of the talking heads on the show. :)

Feel free to repost this…

Russ Lockwood
(here at OMM for the moment)

Very sad! But understandable.

Thank you for the clarification, Russ…and thank you for MagWeb.

I was a subscriber…I never got anything back. As I recall, I had just resubscribed before it went down.