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From: Jonelle Ellis Russell <>
Subject: [SCGS-L] [Fwd: AZGAB-D Digest V01 #93]
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:57:54 -0800


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I copied the messages below from an Arizona Digest. I have not
frequented this site, and have not first hand knowledge. I am passing
the information to you For Your Information.

All email addresses from the address block have not been omitted.
AZGAB-D Digest and list are on roots web, the messages are archived.

Jo Russell


This message came via the Darke County, Ohio list. --Betsy H.

>For those of you who use GNIS for find places (including historical), etc.
>This information came from our map cataloger.
>--Jane
>
>
> The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) of the U.S. Geological
>Survey has been taken off the internet along with most of the U.S.
>Department of Interior web sites by order of a U.S. Federal Judge until
>further notice. The GEOnet names server with foreign names is not affected
>because its servers are part of the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency of
>the Department of Defense.
>
> This court order came about because of a lawsuit involving the
Department
>of Interior's handling of trust funds for Native Americans. A computer
>security test found that computers that held trust fund accounts were
>vulnerable to hackers via the internet. As a result the court
ordered most
>Department of Interior computers to be disconnected from the
internet. This
>includes the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:54:11 -0700
From: Betsy Howard <>
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Subject: [AzGAB] Fwd: DCO- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is down
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This message came via the Darke County, Ohio list. --Betsy H.

>From: "Torres, Jane Ellen" <>
>To: "DCO (E-mail)" <>
>Subject: DCO- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is down
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:59:06 -0500
>X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
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>
>For those of you who use GNIS for find places (including historical), etc.
>This information came from our map cataloger.
>--Jane
>
>
> The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) of the U.S. Geological
>Survey has been taken off the internet along with most of the U.S.
>Department of Interior web sites by order of a U.S. Federal Judge until
>further notice. The GEOnet names server with foreign names is not affected
>because its servers are part of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency of
>the Department of Defense.
>
> This court order came about because of a lawsuit involving the Department
>of Interior's handling of trust funds for Native Americans. A computer
>security test found that computers that held trust fund accounts were
>vulnerable to hackers via the internet. As a result the court ordered most
>Department of Interior computers to be disconnected from the internet. This
>includes the U.S. Geological Survey.


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