Update on the reopening of the Rife Forum!

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Hi,

as a number of you have noticed, the reopening of the Rife Forum is

taking longer than I thought. This is mainly due to the complexity

of the task that I had underestimated. I have been investing a large

number of hours every day on getting this all running.

I am now almost there and I promise you the wait will be worthwhile.

I have opened the forum to a few beta testers and I have been

receiving very positive feedback so far. The capabilities of the new

Rife Forum go much further than the old one (and miles ahead of a

Yahoogroup).

I could do with a few more beta testers to just go through the forum

and check for any inconsistances. Send me an Email if you are

interested.

As with any new project, there are also unforseen technical problems

to fix as well. I have just run into a new one where some advanced

features of the forum require specific features from the web hoster

(cURL support). Unfortunately, the current webhoster (Strato,

Germany) is refusing to offer that feature so I will have to move

the entire forum to the root server that I currently use to host the

www.grayfieldoptical.com website and the online videos. Transfering

the forum and domain will take a few more days, I should then be

able to finally open the forum.

The other server does have the advantage of more webspace and

download capacity, although it will also require more work on my

side to maintain the system. During the domain transfer, the Rife

Forum will go offline for a few hours. This is normal and part of

the process.

Other problems I encountered were in porting the approx. 16000

messages from this Rife Group to the new forum. The test import

worked reasonably well, however about 3000 messages got lost in the

transfer and the import procedure will therefore need to be refined

further. It was also decided to try to sort those messages

automatically into catagories using key words. Software to do this

needs to be written. Therefore, those messages will be added at a

later date (Feb. 2006) when the conversion process works better. The

Forum will therefore initially open without the imported messages

from this Rife Yahoogroup

Up-to-date information on my progress can be found at

http://www.rifeforum.com

Regards

Moderator