PLEASE EXPECT DISRUPTIONS on these mailing list

HEY EVERYONE!! How's it going?

Several people have mentioned that the IHPVA.org mailing list archives
are messed up.  I know this and I AM NOT FIXING THEM.  
Well ACTUALLY I will but in a round about way.

Once a year or so I jump in here and say running IHPVA.org is my HOBBY so
that I don't feel so guilty about it not being run flawlessly.

The current Internet service provider lost ANOTHER hard drive about 2 weeks
ago and the server that IHPVA lives on is still limping. NO I don't need money
but thanks for asking. TIME would help but money would not help
since I would only spend it on more GPS equipment and go hiking to test it!
If I gave the money to the ISP they would spend it on donuts or golf
clubs or ham radio equipment-- It would not go into better server
equipment... let's not talk about it!

Keeping all this IHPVA.org stuff going at the moment is very taxing for me.
I have about 10 minutes a week to devote to it right now.

The guy who does their system backups there and generally keeps all
the systems online is well... let's just say it's NOT his day job and
his heart is not in it. (That guy is, of course, me)

We currently have a bad Internet connection and unreliable equipment
but it's FREE!! Great huh? The only ADVANTAGE is that hosting is "FREE" there
because I keep things running. (They indeed pay me something but it's
NOT worth what I get.) HOWEVER since I started doing IHPVA.org hosting
costs have dropped from many  $100's per month to $6/month so it is no
longer worth keeping up this
barter arrangement. I want OUT! OUT NOW!!!

WHAT THIS MEANS

This means IHPVA.ORG is MOVING!!! Yes. YES! FINALLY...

I am moving it to another service provider. For $6 / month someone
ELSE can manage the network headaches and the backups etc etc etc...
then I have
10 minutes a week MORE to spend on the site.

ANTICIPATE DISRUPTIONS.

I decided that moving the site QUICKLY rather than slowly and
carefully  would help keep me sane. (Some believe this is a futile)

I don't have a really good way to move the SUBSCRIBER lists.
SO -- when the move happens, you will get notifications that you have
been subscribed to whatever lists you're already on. Just like when
you originally subscribed. Because it will be a new list on a new
server.

SETTINGS like "digest", "no mail", etc will be LOST and you will have to connect
to the new web page and reset them, I AM SORRY but this is my HOBBY.
Did I mention that?

I will ATTEMPT to sort out the problems with the mailing list archives
AFTER things have moved. But I can't make any guarantees. I won't have
as much control of the new server (I WANT it that way!) but I will do
what I can.

The new service provider is at "hostmonster.com" who have been doing a
decent job hosting other sites for me since June. Hopefully the
traffic for IHPVA.org
will not be a problem..

Two sites over there already are http://HuPI.org and
http://ravenproject.org are moved there already.   (Pssssst I hear
that the Raven will fly again!!!)

The original HPV mailing list started out as "hpv <at> sonoma.edu" and
then moved to IHPVA.org over 10 years ago (long before there was a
"world wide web") It will continue to change from time to time but it will
continue to exist...

WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN?

Geez I dunno - SOON. You will know it because there will be a disruption!

Brian Wilson
Corvallis OR -- where I am enjoying lovely fall color here now

(Now, anticipating 6 bounce messages saying "you are not subscribed to
this list"...
I press Send)------------------------------------------------------------------------

(I just used up my 10 minutes allocated for the week to write this,
dang it! See you next week!)