[CTRL] Fwd: FTW Subscriber Bulletin 01-21 Web Site Blockage Resolved - Updates

[Kris Millegan]

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From approximately 2100 PDT Friday, through 1700 Saturday October 20, the FTW web site was removed from the worldwide web. The error message received by thousands of people around the world was that the site was "Forbidden."   Our investigation has determined that there was no government involvement in this. It was, however, a result of a human decision. An unknown adminsitrator at our now FORMER hosting service made an arbitrary decision that we were spamming email users based upon our issuance of subscriber bulletins to you, our subscribers. Without notice and in violation of our contract he removed us from the web.   We have since changed web hosting services.   We are also recovering from a nearly crippling attack of the Nimbda virsu on our adminstrative computerwhich has prevented us from making changes to the web site or sending out new bulletins and passwords. We expect to have this problem fully corrected shortly.   In addition, we are experiencing explosive growth which has had our three employees working almost around the clock for days.   We appreciate your patience.   Mike Ruppert   SUBSCRIBER ADVISORY   If you have your email set to block messages addressed to more than a few parties you will be unable to receive our bulletins. We have many new subscribers who have such settings and these setting effectively block our issuance of bulletins to our subscribers. Hence, we have had to remove those addresses which block transmission to the entire group. If you are a subscriber please check your settings. Otherwise we will be unable to reach you.

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