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From Behind The Green Curtain
- October 2004 -


IT Update - Basically, I've got little to report. After playing with SP1 for days to get things working again, SP2 is sitting on my desk unopened. I'm not certain if I don't care anymore or if I'm just tired of havin' hackers mess with my system from afar. I use to believe in karma. I believed that those who messed with others and made it necessary for all of the security features, filters, and virus protection, would get theirs and things would get better. But, it doesn't seem to be working that way, if anything, it's getting worse. Spammers and hackers seem to be dictating how and what we can do on the Internet and I for one am about fed up with it. I've already had to ban two email addresses from my own domain in the last 2 years because spammers where using my domain address to send their junk email, and recently another WINS member is experiencing the joy of receiving hundreds and hundreds of bounces for the very same reason. Unfortunately, I haven't found any solutions to this problem. But, maybe I'm just getting to old for this, I don't know. What I truly feel like doing at times is just pulling the computer's plug and walkin' away from it. I won't, of course, but I sure do feel like it.



Web Site Update - The "About Us" page has been updated once again and now includes Links to Ray Larson's "Coins as Art" Contest and results.  Take a look at the "About Us" page.

Another web site page that has been receiving quite a few updates is the "Members Collecting Interest" page. If you are an active member, please consider participating. Instructions are included on the page itself. View it here - "Member Collecting Interest".



Auction Update - Auction 24 is in progress so all I can report is that there are 75 nice Lots and bidding has been brisk.  You might want to take a look before it closes on Saturday, October 2. Auction Index page.

If you have any suggestions for the web site, please feel free to submit them to me.



Thank you kindly,
JD White, WINS#7




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