website down
As of last weekend, all websites are down due to a hack. Apologies.
The problem is a lot of the websites are old and unmaintained. We cannot see which ones, and we cannot fix them. As there are hundreds of websites, it is beyond our capacity to keep them going or secure them.
So they must be the responsibility of each site owner. In order to deal with this general problem, the board met last wednesday and voted on a general policy of membership requirements. See an email post thursday.
Therefore two things are required for each website:
- a systems administrator needs to be identified and responsible for the security of the site
- a member needs to sponsor in some sense or other the site
For Membership, see the email sent out by doris.