<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:Oxygen,sans-serif">Dear community,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:Oxygen,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:Oxygen,sans-serif">We are happy to inform that our site is now back to normal and our services have resumed. We are still working on a long-term stability strategy and we will be able to update you on that and also provide a more detailed explanation of our issues soon.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:Oxygen,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:Oxygen,sans-serif">Thank you William and Jean-Claude for your suggestions, we brought them up at our technical meeting on Monday and we will be looking at using some of their services.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:Oxygen,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:Oxygen,sans-serif">Thank you again for your patience over the last few weeks.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#191919" face="Oxygen, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#191919" face="Oxygen, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div><font color="#191919" face="Oxygen, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 4:59 PM, William Gunn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.gunn@gmail.com" target="_blank">william.gunn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Apologies if I'm telling you something you already know, but CloudFlare are experts in defending sites from this sort of thing & have been known to offer their services pro bono for good causes. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">William Gunn<br>+1 (650) 614-1749<br><a href="http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/" target="_blank">http://synthesis.williamgunn.<wbr>org/about/</a></div></font></span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 4:56 AM Clara Armengou <<a href="mailto:clara@doaj.org" target="_blank">clara@doaj.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Dear community,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We deeply regret the current problems with the DOAJ site. After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party. </span><br style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We have deployed a number of counter-measures to halt this attack, but with limited success, and are therefore forced to take even more extreme measures to attempt to mitigate this. We hope that this will work but we cannot predict the outcome at this stage.</span><br style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The DOAJ team would like to apologise for the intermittent service and to let you know we are doing our best to go back to normal operations.</span></div></div>
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