it seems that the forums at davidweber.net are history. the site exists, but is now just a showcase for a few of his books. Notably absent are:

1. Safehold
2. Bazhel
3. Gordian Division
4. Hellsgate

Why, itƒ??s almost as if some series are abandonware... And the absence
of the fora means that there isnƒ??t anywhere to say so. Except here.


--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
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In article
<0001HW.2F2837BC004494D670000C96938F@news.eternal-september.org>,
WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

it seems that the forums at davidweber.net are history. the site exists, but is now just a showcase for a few of his books. Notably absent are:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site
administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We
will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can
be reloaded).

1. Safehold
2. Bazhel
3. Gordian Division
4. Hellsgate

Why, itƒ??s almost as if some series are abandonware... And the absence
of the fora means that there isnƒ??t anywhere to say so. Except here.

If you check the "Books" or "Series" tabs, you will find those 4 series represented, however the more recent Gordian division titles (Jacob
Holo's solitaire effort _The Dyson File_ plus _The Thermopylae Protocol_
and the most "recent" (2015!?) Bazhel are missing. Also missing are the
2 sequels to _Mutineers' Moon_ and the omnibus edition of the 3. What is
weird is that one of the Starfire series collaborations with Steve White
is missing, but 4 titles that Steve White wrote with somebody else are present.

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ?-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site
administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We
will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can
be reloaded).

Doesn't ANYONE make backups anymore?

And why do people use wordpress for pages that don't need to be dynamic?
It is just asking for this sort of thing to happen.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Jan 27, 2026, Scott Dorsey wrote
(in article <10lanl3$b0$1@panix2.panix.com>):

Robert Woodward<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site
administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We
will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can
be reloaded).

it?d be nice if there was an announcement somewhere...

Doesn't ANYONE make backups anymore?

just us old fogies, it would seem.

And why do people use wordpress for pages that don't need to be dynamic?
It is just asking for this sort of thing to happen.
--scott

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

In article <10lanl3$b0$1@panix2.panix.com>,
kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site >administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We
will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can
be reloaded).

Doesn't ANYONE make backups anymore?

There was several attempts to restore the site after the takeover, but
the security hole that allowed the initial takeover was obviously not
sealed.

And why do people use wordpress for pages that don't need to be dynamic?
It is just asking for this sort of thing to happen.
--scott

I suspect that wordpress is "easy" to work with.

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ?-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

In article
<0001HW.2F2969B2008C49C370000082B38F@news.eternal-september.org>,
WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

On Jan 27, 2026, Scott Dorsey wrote
(in article <10lanl3$b0$1@panix2.panix.com>):

Robert Woodward<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We
will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can be reloaded).

it?d be nice if there was an announcement somewhere...

I thought it was announced somewhere (either Weber's Facebook page or
Baen's Bar).

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ?-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:03:47 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site >>administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We
will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can

be reloaded).

Doesn't ANYONE make backups anymore?

I do. Grandfather-father-son.

But it took a while, and several disasters with DOS and NT [1], to
make me fully convinced of it's advantages.

[1] Back when the "NT Recovery Disk" worked by /wiping out the Master
Boot Record/ so you had to re-partition, re-format, and re-store the
entire hard drive. To this day I use a non-Microsoft backup. They just
can't be trusted with this sort of stuff.

And why do people use wordpress for pages that don't need to be dynamic?
It is just asking for this sort of thing to happen.
--scott

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 1/28/2026 10:45 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:03:47 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site
administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We
will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can
be reloaded).

Doesn't ANYONE make backups anymore?

I do. Grandfather-father-son.

But it took a while, and several disasters with DOS and NT [1], to
make me fully convinced of it's advantages.

[1] Back when the "NT Recovery Disk" worked by /wiping out the Master
Boot Record/ so you had to re-partition, re-format, and re-store the
entire hard drive. To this day I use a non-Microsoft backup. They just
can't be trusted with this sort of stuff.

...

I have three online backups (dedicated internal hard drives) for my
office LAN (12 PCs including two file servers) and seven offline backups (external hard drives). I update one of the externals each week and
archive one of the externals twice a year. All using mirror images, no proprietary backup software. I use an old copy of Robocopy from Windows
XP that just works, no weird crashes like the newer variants.

My fresh drive backup is 4 TB and takes 48 hours but it grows at 100 GB
per week since I never delete anything off the backup drives. My
smallest backup drive is 8 TB but it will be replaced by a 16 TB soon.
My next smallest backup drive is 12 TB.

Lynn


--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 1/26/2026 6:01 PM, WolfFan wrote:

it seems that the forums at davidweber.net are history. the site exists, but is now just a showcase for a few of his books. Notably absent are:

1. Safehold
2. Bazhel
3. Gordian Division
4. Hellsgate

Why, itƒ??s almost as if some series are abandonware... And the absence
of the fora means that there isnƒ??t anywhere to say so. Except here.

David Weber's wife Sharon was the webmaster for a long time. She has
been fighting breast cancer for several years now, I suspect that she is
stage 4. He mentioned the other day that she was having surgery for the umpteenth time ...

My wife had stage 2b breast cancer back in 2005. It was incredibly debilitating for her.

Lynn


--- PyGate Linux v1.5.6
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Jan 28, 2026, Robert Woodward wrote
(in article<robertaw-F4AE90.21595927012026@news.individual.net>):

In article
<0001HW.2F2969B2008C49C370000082B38F@news.eternal-september.org>,
WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

On Jan 27, 2026, Scott Dorsey wrote
(in article <10lanl3$b0$1@panix2.panix.com>):

Robert Woodward<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can be reloaded).

it?d be nice if there was an announcement somewhere...

I thought it was announced somewhere (either Weber's Facebook page or
Baen's Bar).

Don?t go to either. I may look at Baen?s Bar. I will never go near
Arsebook.


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* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)