I discovered that posting this morning, too. I think it's KIP that is overreacting by removing ALL grotto newsletters; the issue was just raised in the past few days by Huntsville, based on a member who discovered the KIP trove and worried about sensitive info in older issues. I'm not aware of any other recent complaints.
I'm in their Yahoo group, and responded that they should instead redact any sensitive info (which I suspect is very little). It's a large chore, but easy enough to do. Most, if not all, of the 351 HG issues online were sent in by Windy City (Bill Mixon) and not HG, which may be the cause of the kerfuffle. I've written to KIP Liaison Todd Chavez, urging him to drag his feet on the removal until we can calm the waters. Hopefully we can preempt this, and your efforts (and Bill's and mine) will not have been in vain. On 10 Dec 2014 at 10:03, Mark Minton via Texascavers wrote: From: Mark Minton via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> To: texascavers@texascavers.com Date sent: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:03:45 -0500 Send reply to: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal > George, > > According to the Karst Information Portal home page, grotto newsletters > are soon to be withdrawn from open access. That seems like addressing > the potential problem of location information with a sledgehammer. > What's the point of having things on KIP if no one can get to them? > Maybe they should be put into a special "members only" area where NSS > members can log in with their NSS number and some other credentials to > see the newsletters. I've been actively promoting editors to make their > newsletters available through KIP and many have agreed. Now that all > looks like it might have been for naught. :-( > > Mark -- Alex Sproul NSS 8086RL/FE Acting NSS Webmaster www.caves.org
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