http://help.ancestry.com/app/answers/de ... /a_id/9284
This unhelpful message has been up since Wednesday, according to this post by the blogger The Ancestry Insider:Rootsweb is experiencing some temporary site problems. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. Our development and web operations teams are working on the problem and we will have it resolved as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.
RootsWeb Update: Still Down and No Known Resolution Date
Since the entire site seems to be down, I would guess that also includes ALL of the mailing lists (hundreds, if not more) hosted there included FHU-L. The last message I received from FHU-L was from Arthur & Pauline Kennedy, timestamped Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:48 AM, subject Re: [FHU] Thousands of sources?RootsWeb has now been down for over two days. It went down before 4pm MST on Wednesday, 24 February 2016.
I want to say thank you to Jane for this forum, to Jane and Mike Tate especially for all their contributions here and on the list, and to all of you who have contributed here and to FHU-L.
I hope that this is just a temporary glitch, and not the first sign of a catastrophe -- but seeing what Ancestry's stewardship of Genealogy.com has been, I am not reassured by their message.
P.S. Jane, I'm assuming all the mods of the RootsWeb mailing lists are in the dark as much as we users are. My sympathies -- this has to be much more annoying for all of you than it is for the user base.