From: jonsg@deadspam.com   
      
   Hi all,   
      
   @ There are fewer and fewer postings in this newsgroup now, between the   
   monthly FAQs remainders.   
      
   @ The genealogy-britain.org.uk domain has very recently expired, due to   
   my stupidity. (Distracted by job-seeking.)   
      
   @ The existing FAQs site - now no longer accessible from that domain due   
   to expiry - is so far behind the current versions of its content   
   management system* (CMS) software that it's well-nigh impossible to   
   bring it up-to-date and patch it for security. Content would have to be   
   transferred to a new CMS, and that maintained on a new server.   
      
   To get everything up and running - and, for the website, up-to-date -   
   will require considerable effort (and some cost). With the initial   
   points in mind, I'm not convinced these are justified, but perhaps   
   another member is.   
      
   If someone is prepared to step up to the bar and take over, I will be   
   delighted to renew and pass control of the domain, and assist in   
   transferring data from the old site, otherwise the FAQs will simply cease.   
      
   So...if you want to volunteer, please email me (note the spam block,   
   described in my signature below) or follow-up on this thread. Bear in   
   mind that this is a job for someone who is very technically minded,   
   probably an IT professional.   
      
   I'll still be around from time to time on the group, of course. It's   
   just that this is an administrative load and cost I can no longer afford   
   to expend for the limited benefit I perceive they deliver now.   
      
   All the best,   
      
   Jon   
      
   (* CMSes store the variable content of the site in a database, and the   
   fixed content, such as graphics, in a file structure the database and   
   code know about.)   
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