Re: AFS Forum

Ross:

You rock.
Thanks for all your unsung efforts.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
-BN

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> Subject: Re: [ferns] AFS Forum
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:26:24 -0500
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> Hi Anthony,
> 
> I'm the "list-dad" of ferns@hort.net...and I can give you some brief  
> history
> of the list-server. Indeed this has been around for many, many years
> first as pteridonet then as fernet and most recently as ferns. The  
> archives
> of pteridonet were dutifully transferred to fernet, and fernet  
> archives were
> transferred to ferns.
> 
> However, ferns is not being served by a faculty member from a university
> website, and so while hort.net has received the pteridonet and fernet
> archives, those messages have NOT been put on-line in the nice way that
> the archives since the last transfer are automatically threaded.
> 
> So we have not been hacked (as far as I know), we have a very nice
> threaded archive since 2002, and I'm guessing that Christopher (who does
> all of the services for us for free!) can provide you with the  
> unthreaded
> archives of both fernet and pteridonet. If not, then I **may** be  
> able to do
> that. I'd have to dig through some old back up versions of fernet.
> 
> Frankly, though, I'm not sure what value the archives would have. I have
> had one serious inquiry about access to them in all these years. Would
> you be my second?
> 
> ross
> 
> On Nov 27, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Anthony Pigott wrote:
> 
> > Hello All
> >
> > I've just been looking at the AFS web site.  I noticed that there's a
> > message on their forum page to the effect that the forum had been  
> > hacked and
> > all the messages lost. It looks recent but there's no further  
> > information. I
> > wondered whether anyone knew the background. As webmaster of the  
> > BPS web
> > site, I take more than a passing interest in these things!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Anthony
> >
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> Ross Koning
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