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Thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding while the All Saints and Salt websites were off the air for the last eight days.

The outage was the result of an over-exuberant search engine indexing agent from one of Russia's leading websites, Yandex, which chewed up a staggering 37 per cent of our webspace's allocated bandwidth for the month of June 2008. By comparison, Google's share was about 4 per cent.

There is no evidence either of hacking or of a denial-of-service attack.

Bearing in mind that Russia falls outside the Petersham parish boundaries, I am taking steps to deny access, human and otherwise, to the All Saints website for all visitors from Yandex.ru

Note also: Our website will also be offline from 9pm tonight (Wednesday July 1) for some routine maintenance. I expect to have it available again by morning Thursday. In case of further problems we'll have status updates on Twitter @allstspetersham.