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From: Lauren Boyd <>
Subject: [SCOT-DNA] Update from List Admin re Rootsweb items; ATT email; resolution of "hacked" site; etc.
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:40:22 -0800

Dear Listers:

It has been brought to my attention today that Rootsweb has
a new Acceptable Use Policy and also a Privacy Statement.

You will find them at:

http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html
and
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/privacy.html

For all intent and purposes, they seem to reflect similar
wording to what I had read at Ancestry.com site a while ago.
However, it is best that you read them for yourself.

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ATT subscribers' mail is bouncing on many lists, if not on all.
Seems ATT has some internal issue that is preventing Rootsweb
from being able to deliver mail. RW tries for 3 days and then
deletes the undeliverable mail from the que. This is an ATT
problem, *not* a RW problem. It is unknown how long it will
take for it to clear up.

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Thanks to Dick Stewart, who alerted me to a Rootsweb web site
being "hacked" I was able to alert RW. It was investigated
immediately and the determination that I received said it was
only the one site. They felt the password had likely been
compromised. The web site has been restored. Rootsweb was
most responsive.

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I suspect we will have a bunch of newbies subscribe to the lists
right after Christmas. Please be patient and supportive of them
while they figure out what they are doing with their brand new
computers! And also -- make sure you have your antivirus software
up-to-date, on and activated. The data you protect may be your
own!

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Happy Holidays to all the subscribers of all the lists I administer!

Yours Aye,
Slainte,
Happy Trails,

Lauren
List Admin

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