after a long night of beer blah hack splice graft perl miceql grunge splech pizza argh art blech … the database has been recovered.
There may be errors or lost data … please let the support or stuff or tech lists know.
Also the security updates were done on the raw machine … hold your breath!
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:
For Membership, see the email sent out by doris.
Present: iang, virtual-matthias-G
