<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>As Lynn Stephens noted, the old GOSA website, which languished for some time with no webmaster, had suffered attacks from hackers and was infected by many viruses.  Our new webmaster, Don Might, managed to expunge the viruses, but the files suffered.  In addition to the logbook files that Lynn mentioned, a lot of the descriptions are damaged, which shows up as greatly shortened files that often end in mid-sentence.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have not heard from David Monteith after many queries about backups, so I assume that there are none available to us.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don Might has been working hard on a new, completely revised website which we hope to roll out very soon.  It has a much more contemporary look and feel, and contains many of the images and text that Don was able to recover from the existing site.  It will require a lot of effort to reconstruct the site with the amount of information that was on the original site, and we will need contributions from a lot of geyser gazers to bring the site back to the level of content that was lost.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>As soon as we are ready to unveil the new site, we will announce it in the Geyser Gazer SPUT and here, so stay tuned.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984302003-03052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ralph Taylor</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>