<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Harold,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You perform an invaluable service to all of us interested in these issues - do please continue. And my students are all addicts as of course am I . Que sigue no mas, as any Peruvian would tell you. Fortsätt - as a Swede more laconically would say. Don't you dare quit - with love, Christina<br><div><div>On Feb 8, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Harold Schiffman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear Members, </div> <div> </div> <div></div> <div>If you have tried in recent weeks to log on to our website, or to make a request to become a member, or to have your membership cancelled, you will have noticed some problems. The reason for these problems is that the server that we have been using for the last 6 or 7 years, "ccat" (webadress <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp</a>) has been having problems that have led the tech support people here to make the decision to move as many applications away from it and eventually replace it with other servers. Some time ago, because of the inability of ccat to handle spam, I began sending messages via gmail, and all messages that come through ccat are forwarded to me at gmail (<a href="mailto:hfsclpp@gmail.com">hfsclpp@gmail.com</a>) which can manage spam much more efficiently. (Otherwise I was getting 250 or more spam messages per day.) </div> <div> </div> <div></div> <div>I met with the tech support person yesterday and we have agreed to the following: </div> <ul> <li>From now on, all requests to add or remove memberships should be directed to me personally at either <a href="mailto:haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu">haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:hfsclpp@gmail.com">hfsclpp@gmail.com</a> You will no longer be able to access the on-line forms to do this.</li> <li>The database we have had on-line, which listed the personal information people filled out when they became members, and which was visible to anyone in the world who wanted to see it, is deemed too vulnerable and too sensitive to leave in that state.</li> <li>That membership database, with over 400 entries, will be disabled, and we will try to find a new "home" for it. I do not at this point know where it could be hosted that would guarantee privacy for the information, so I will have to continue to explore ways to keep it viable.</li> <li>Please let me know if you personally wish this database to be somehow available, somewhere, i.e. I need to know the following:</li> <ul> <li>Have you ever consulted it?</li> <li>Do you find it useful?</li> <li>Do you think it has ever been compromised? </li></ul> <li>Only once in our history has one user become unpleasant and uncivil in messages to others, and I had to ban him from membership. Since then, there have been no problems that I know of. </li> <li>The general webpage with information about the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning, at <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp</a> <strong>but not the membership page</strong> accessible by clicking on "Members" will continue to be available.</li> </ul> <div>Sincerely,</div> <div> </div> <div>Hal Schiffman</div> <div>************************************** </div> <div>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members </div> <div>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of </div> <div>the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a </div> <div>message are encouraged to post a rebuttal. (H. Schiffman, Moderator) </div> <div>******************************************* </div> <div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>