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<LI>Please let me know if you personally wish this database to be somehow
available, somewhere, i.e. I need to know the following:
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<LI>Have you ever consulted it?
<LI>Do you find it useful?
<LI>Do you think it has ever been compromised? </FONT><FONT
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<DIV><SPAN class=119213910-10022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Yes,
yes, and no.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=119213910-10022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=119213910-10022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This
is a valuable service which I also recommend to advanced students (especially on
Masters Programs). And a bit of personality problems would not constitute
compromise, I feel. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=119213910-10022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Anthea</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P>Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)</P>
<P>School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT <</FONT><A
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<P>NB: Reply to a.f.gupta@leeds.ac.uk</P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Harold
Schiffman<BR><B>Sent:</B> 08 February 2008 19:42<BR><B>To:</B>
lp<BR><B>Subject:</B> Problems managing membership data on the Consortium for
Language Policy and Planning<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Members, </DIV>
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<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>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>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>Please let me know if you personally wish this database to be somehow
available, somewhere, i.e. I need to know the following:
<UL>
<LI>Have you ever consulted it?
<LI>Do you find it useful?
<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>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>
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<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>
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