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    Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out? —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) So many people volunteered to help with this that the load from many many simultaneous connections apparently took the New Orleans Network (where the data is being collated) DB server down, they're upgrading and said they'd be back up soonish. (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out? —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Server is back up, and something like 15-20,000 free form records (the more automated ones are being scraped rather than hand transcribed) have been transcribed already by volunteers, but there's lots more to do yet. If you want to help, (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)  
 

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