From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:03:47 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >Robert Woodward   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site    
   >>administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We    
   >>will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can    
   >>be reloaded).   
   >   
   >Doesn't ANYONE make backups anymore?   
      
   I do. Grandfather-father-son.   
      
   But it took a while, and several disasters with DOS and NT [1], to   
   make me fully convinced of it's advantages.   
      
   [1] Back when the "NT Recovery Disk" worked by /wiping out the Master   
   Boot Record/ so you had to re-partition, re-format, and re-store the   
   entire hard drive. To this day I use a non-Microsoft backup. They just   
   can't be trusted with this sort of stuff.   
      
   >And why do people use wordpress for pages that don't need to be dynamic?   
   >It is just asking for this sort of thing to happen.   
   >--scott   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)