ADMIN: Databases

[bluesqueak]

Following our recent admin in message 20651, we'd like to update you 
on the vanishing Main List databases.

The previous admin informed you that our Main List databases were 
maliciously deleted, and had been restored from backup. Shortly 
after, a second attack was made in which false entries were made 
into three of the databases.

Quite a lot of false entries; several hundred, in fact. ;-)

The admin team decided to take the databases offline until we could
work out a system that still allows members to read the databases,
and will also allow them to be quickly updated.

We apologise that we didn't inform you of this earlier; our first
concern was to find a way to restore the Main List databases in a 
tamper-proof form. We didn't want to send out an endless series of 
administrative updates.

Currently, all the Main List databases are in read only format.
They've been edited so that they can be restored from backup copies
in a matter of minutes. All members can read them; if you want to
add an entry then, for the time being it will be necessary to email 
HPforGrownups-Owner at yahoogroups.com

List administration will then make the updates.

Some entries may have been lost in the process of editing the backup
copies for speed of loading; please notify us of any errors or
omissions in the Inish Alley database, the Birthday database and the
Recommended Reading database.

Our apologies for these problems


Pippy Elf
for List Administration.