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A little clarification about the Subscription pages.
[2003-10-09]
Many of you have been trying to connect to the subscription pages since yesterday afternoon. As some probably already noticed, it was statistically much easier to "register" an account than to "re-subscribe". There is a simple technical reason to that, let me explain...
The subscription tool only accepts a set number of simultaneous operations and, as soon as this limit is reached, any new connection attempt will get the lovely "too busy, try again later" message. As soon as one of the places are free, someone else can sit down and do what he wanted. This process allows a constant flux of registration/account updating without putting the whole system to its knees. To register, it is pretty simple to just hammer the refresh key.
For the "account" section however, you need to insert your account information before really accessing the account page. We have decided to change some things and to give everyone a better chance to connect (be it for registration of new accounts or do changes on existing accounts). This will make our web servers suffer a bit, but will give everyone easier access.
We are also keeping a close watch on the evolution of active connections, many among you are constantly and regularly subscribing and updating your account information, so the requests are currently being processed, the pages are not down, it just takes a little time.
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[2003-10-09]
Many of you have been trying to connect to the subscription pages since yesterday afternoon. As some probably already noticed, it was statistically much easier to "register" an account than to "re-subscribe". There is a simple technical reason to that, let me explain...
The subscription tool only accepts a set number of simultaneous operations and, as soon as this limit is reached, any new connection attempt will get the lovely "too busy, try again later" message. As soon as one of the places are free, someone else can sit down and do what he wanted. This process allows a constant flux of registration/account updating without putting the whole system to its knees. To register, it is pretty simple to just hammer the refresh key.
For the "account" section however, you need to insert your account information before really accessing the account page. We have decided to change some things and to give everyone a better chance to connect (be it for registration of new accounts or do changes on existing accounts). This will make our web servers suffer a bit, but will give everyone easier access.
We are also keeping a close watch on the evolution of active connections, many among you are constantly and regularly subscribing and updating your account information, so the requests are currently being processed, the pages are not down, it just takes a little time.
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