June 2006

News for Sunday June 25, 2006 · problems... again...   Dear Echocluster.com Players, you are probably wondering why games are not being hosted again and to make it short the reason for this is because the DTAG probably damaged my line and thereforce my connection is down again since last thuesday. Unfortunatly the company seems only able to cause damage but not to undo it so I am waiting for a technician to look into it and hopefully correct the problem soon. People who know me probably know I am the one most annoyed about this as living without internet is a boring and dangerous life... Wish me luck that everything gets back to normal again maybe "already" tomorrow - I will host all games on hold right away when my connection is up again. Thanks for your understanding.   by Black Shadow

News for Saturday June 17, 2006 · All games back on schedule   Dear Echocluster.com Players, one day later then planed all games are back on schedule. Just to give you some numbers: 608 hostmails have been checked resulting in 940 reply mails. Furthermore about 1000+ spam-mails arrived in addition. Needless to say I gotta work through these before I get to any support mail that might have arrived in the meantime. So if you mailed me recently and didn't get an answer please have some patience or mail me again if it is important so I get the real mails on top of the... spam Another notice for the restart: I am using Echocluster.com's original SMTP server now instead of the smtp-relay-server I used to use. Please make sure mails from echocluster.com do not get blocked by your email/spam/isp settings. There were some problems years back when I first tried using it that resulted in mails not getting to their recipients properly in rare cases. I hope this will not happen this time as this is the only smtp I can use currently. If you think host-mails are not arriving properly at your mailbox please drop me a mail and I'll look into it. So far it looks like it's working properly thogh. All left to say from my side is: have fun in the games and expect the unexpected! More news coming up soon...   by Black Shadow

News for Thursday June 15, 2006 · Good News   Dear Echocluster.com Players, I am bringing you good news! I finally got a stable internet connection again so everything is going back to normal. I plan to host all games this evening in about 20 hours if nothing serious strikes me or my precious connection. I still need to configure the network and am looking desperately for a new SMTP-Relay server for the host as the old one is not available anymore for me. If you happen to know of a free SMTP-Relay Server available (a relay server is the same as a SMTP server but allows you to use any kind of sender-email) please drop me a mail. I hope you all look forward to this and have not suffered too much in the waittime - finally something to do beside watching the FIFA worldcup, eh? ;)   by Black Shadow

News for Saturday June 3, 2006 · still waiting   Dear Echocluster.com Players, no news regarding my new internet connection. I'm still waiting for information from my ISP as for when it'll be available. I will try to find other possibilities for the meantime this weekend to get the games running again as soon as possible. I'll keep you updated! Thanks for reading.   by Black Shadow