06/01/05 News

[Paul]

It occured to me tonight that I haven't done a very good job of keeping the community aware of some things.  I thought I'd take this opportunity to do so here.

1) Have no fear about the stability of the community.  Now that the "router" mess is taken care of - we should be very stable for a long time.  I'm gathering the funds to put a battery backup on the server (as we've been having some power outages in NC lately) and if you'd like to donate to this cause via PayPal, let me know.

2) Have even less fear about the security of the data.  The board is backed up nightly to a different drive, and weekly to a different server.  There are lots of redundancies in place as well.

3) Wiki: I promise guys, we're almost there.  I ran into some snags on how to authenticate users for it (permissions problems) and as soon as I work those out it will be good to go.

4) At this point - I am assured that we have no legal issues to be concerned about.

Let me know if there are any other issues of concern.