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Old 04-12-2009, 14:24   #10
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Re: Virgin Media Forum "closed for maintenance"

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
Oh dear. There's a gaffe if ever there was one. Here's some speculation:

1 They're purging criticism

2 They'll "accidentally" lose the database & start again or roll back to a convenient date

3 There's too much reference to their Quality Director's statement that their processes were "fundamentally broken"

4 The site actually needs "maintenance" - eh?

If it's genuine maintenance, through the timing, VM have laid themselves open to potentially damaging speculation!

You missed one:

5 Something could have fallen over (like the backend database server), causing the forum software to display the maintenance message because it couldn't access the database.. IIRC, this forum does when the database falls over..
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