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New Data File Hosting Site

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A couple weeks ago, yahoogroups introduced changes in its service that
significantly impacted downloads of data files hosted on yahoogroups.
Unfortunately, yahoogroups never notified anyone about the changes, so it
caught us all by surprise.

Now for the good news. A new data file hosting site has been established by
an avid user. [Thanks Robert!!] The URL is www.datafilesrus.com. All data
file authors who are currently hosting data files on yahoogroups should now
switch to using this new site.

To ensure that net ne'er-do-wells don't abuse the site, upload capabilities
are restricted to those with data file authoring accounts. We've
coordinated with site creator to synchronize author logins. This means that
all authors of Army Builder and/or Card Vault data files will automatically
have the identical login name and password on datafilesrus.com.

To use the new site, authors will see a login link at the bottom of the
main page. You'll be prompted to enter the product, login name, and
password. Once logged in, you can upload your data files, along with a
brief description, much like yahoogroups. Once you've uploaded your files,
log into your authoring account as normal and simply specify the URL on
datafilesrus instead of yahoogroups. The download path will either be
www.datafilesrus.com/ab/filename.ext or www.datafilesrus.com/cv/filename.ext.

For end-users, this change should be transparent when using the Locate File
mechanism of either product. The only difference should be that the
download failures now introduced by yahoogroups will go away. :-) End-users
can retrieve files from this site if they wish. On the main page, there are
links to get the list of downloads for each product. Retrieving files does
NOT require a login.

Note that a number of data files for Card Vault have already been migrated
to the new site. However, no data files for Army Builder have been migrated
yet.

Thanks, Rob

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>From: Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com>
>
>Now for the good news. A new data file hosting site has been established by
>an avid user. [Thanks Robert!!] The URL is www.datafilesrus.com. All data
>file authors who are currently hosting data files on yahoogroups should now
>switch to using this new site.
>
>Thanks, Rob

How will this affect new authors? Will someone with admin rights have to set
us up with a new account?

Terry

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> A couple weeks ago, yahoogroups introduced changes in its service that
> significantly impacted downloads of data files hosted on yahoogroups.
> Unfortunately, yahoogroups never notified anyone about the changes, so it
> caught us all by surprise.

Just out of curiosity, how so? I just ask as I've not noticed any issues with
downloads of the bloodbowl files from the files section of the group for them.

> Now for the good news. A new data file hosting site has been established by
> an avid user. [Thanks Robert!!] The URL is www.datafilesrus.com. All data
> file authors who are currently hosting data files on yahoogroups should now
> switch to using this new site.

Fair enough.

> To ensure that net ne'er-do-wells don't abuse the site, upload capabilities
> are restricted to those with data file authoring accounts. We've
> coordinated with site creator to synchronize author logins. This means that
> all authors of Army Builder and/or Card Vault data files will automatically
> have the identical login name and password on datafilesrus.com.

What about new authors? (You just set up my account, so I don't know how long
it'll be before my user info migrates over to the new site).

> To use the new site, authors will see a login link at the bottom of the
> main page. You'll be prompted to enter the product, login name, and
> password. Once logged in, you can upload your data files, along with a
> brief description, much like yahoogroups. Once you've uploaded your files,
> log into your authoring account as normal and simply specify the URL on
> datafilesrus instead of yahoogroups. The download path will either be
> www.datafilesrus.com/ab/filename.ext or www.datafilesrus.com/cv/filename.ext.
>
> For end-users, this change should be transparent when using the Locate File
> mechanism of either product. The only difference should be that the
> download failures now introduced by yahoogroups will go away. :-) End-users
> can retrieve files from this site if they wish. On the main page, there are
> links to get the list of downloads for each product. Retrieving files does
> NOT require a login.
>
> Note that a number of data files for Card Vault have already been migrated
> to the new site. However, no data files for Army Builder have been migrated
> yet.
>
> Thanks, Rob
>
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> Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com
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At 10:01 AM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > A couple weeks ago, yahoogroups introduced changes in its service that
> > significantly impacted downloads of data files hosted on yahoogroups.
> > Unfortunately, yahoogroups never notified anyone about the changes, so it
> > caught us all by surprise.
>
>Just out of curiosity, how so? I just ask as I've not noticed any issues
>with
>downloads of the bloodbowl files from the files section of the group for them.

Downloads that don't originate from a logged in yahoogroups session would
be limited to a small trickle over some unspecified period. Once a couple
people downloaded something, others would be unable to download anything
for awhile. Attempts to contact yahoogroups yielded no response with
concrete information about the new changes, which occurred without any warning.

> > To ensure that net ne'er-do-wells don't abuse the site, upload
> capabilities
> > are restricted to those with data file authoring accounts. We've
> > coordinated with site creator to synchronize author logins. This means
> that
> > all authors of Army Builder and/or Card Vault data files will
> automatically
> > have the identical login name and password on datafilesrus.com.
>
>What about new authors? (You just set up my account, so I don't know how long
>it'll be before my user info migrates over to the new site).

It's automatic. I worked it out with Robert so that I've provided a private
webpage on our server that datafilesrus.com contacts with the login info.
The response indicates whether it's a valid login or not. Once logged in,
authors have unlimited access on datafilesrus.com.

So the moment you receive notification that your author account is active
on our server, you have access to datafilesrus.com. This way, Robert
doesn't have to do anything special on his end and there's no migration
delay. It's quick and simple. :-)

Hope this helps,
Rob

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