2009-01-08, 02:35 PM
due to unforseen circumstances, www.linux-noob.com will go offline tonight January 8th 2009.
At this point I cannot say WHEN it will come back online,
I received an printed letter today (2009/08/jan) stating that
1. a user has complained that an email received from www.linux-noob.com (entitled happy new year from linux-noob.com 3rd January 2009 - 10:16 PM) was spam (it wasn't, see below)
copy of email sent too MEMBERS of linux-noob.com
Quote:hi {member_name},
this is a short email to wish you seasons greetings from linux-noob.com and we'd like to see you back, and not only that we'd like to see you writing reviews of linux (get famous !)
The review section is here > http://linux-noob.com/review and as you can see it needs NEW reviews.... so if you want to review your chosen distro, whatever it is, then please contact us
heres the mail address >> review@linux-noob.com
please do take a moment to drop by and say hello, and feel free to contribute
thanks for your time and happy new year from linux-noob.com
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and that
2. a webserver called http://linux-noob.com breaks the ISPs terms and conditions (point 4.1, appa\rently you are not allowed to have a webserver providing a service or information to others)
As this contradicts the ISP's terms and conditions, I have been given until 2009/09 at 8.am to fix it (ie: take it offline)
I apologise for this in advance and hope to have everything back online again very soon,
until then, adios
cheers
anyweb