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[List Admin]

Dear All,

Great to see some activity on the list and a brief note to let you know 
that I am still battling away to keep servers and list running. The usual 
reason for a post being held for moderation is that HTML has been included 
in the message.

Gradually I was spending more and more time simply battling spam and denial 
of service attacks. When you spend over an hour each and every evening 
dealing with EMail and server issues photography becomes excluded as I also 
have to work to keep the wolf away from the door. After 5 years of this 
level of work I simply threw my hands in the air and took a break. With 
over 30000 EMails a day hitting the servers and just 1% getting through the 
sophisticated defences, well you do the maths.

Les, sorry to hear that I missed your EMails and will have a look at your 
account. The Forum was also attacked and there are some glitches that the 
vendors are supposed to be sorting out. In the meantime Graeme decided to 
set up his own Forum and took all with him and I wish him the best of luck.

Bottom line is that f32.net is a labour of love and perhaps like many love 
affairs you can become blind to the realities - ie I have to pay for its 
continued existence on a monthly basis and it takes time - with little 
income! However I will not be beaten by the spammers and other demented 
inhabitants of the digital world.

Keep the faith chaps - I wish you all good light and great images in your 
large format photography!  I regard you all as friends and as such want to 
keep you happy but please remember the work that goes on unseen just to 
keep the ship afloat. Think of me as the captain who has taken up the role 
of stoker in the boiler room as the crew desert ship :-)  The Leader has 
never abandoned you, simply working hard alone to keep the ship afloat and 
on course.

Please use the facilities, your cameras, burn film and keep posting!

Thanks to all those who have offered and given support.

All the very best,

Clive

At 16:31 19/06/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>I always liked the listserve rather than trying to navigate F32 or 
>photo.net.   I'm officially a member of f32 forum, even posted a few 
>times.  Now I can't log in and the moderator won't return my emails in 
>getting it straight.  This was a lively group until so much spam caused 
>the server to have a meltdown and the moderator took too long to get it 
>back up, by then the talkative ones left for places that worked. Etiher 
>that or they all went digital.
>
>les
>
>
>On Jun 19, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Steve wrote:
>
>>Hrmm.
>>   Honestly, I had forgotten that I even subscribed to this list !  The
>>emails are so far and few between.  Why do you think this is ?  I
>>honestly think its due to the excellent web-based forums that are
>>available.  What would this list offer that they don't ?  Perhaps that
>>is what we need to be asking ourselves in order to keep this alive.
>>
>>Regards,
>>   Steve
>>On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:27 -0400, Les Newcomer wrote:
>>>I tried to reply to the latest post and was told that it awaits
>>>moderator's approval!  Hey the original got through!   In any case it
>>>looks like Fearless Leader has abandoned us again.
>>>
>>>Les
>>>
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