PLEASE EXPECT DISRUPTIONS on these mailing list

HEY EVERYONE!! How's it going?

Several people have mentioned that the IHPVA.org mailing list archives
are messed up.  I know this and I AM NOT FIXING THEM.  
Well ACTUALLY I will but in a round about way.

Once a year or so I jump in here and say running IHPVA.org is my HOBBY so
that I don't feel so guilty about it not being run flawlessly.

The current Internet service provider lost ANOTHER hard drive about 2 weeks
ago and the server that IHPVA lives on is still limping. NO I don't need money
but thanks for asking. TIME would help but money would not help
since I would only spend it on more GPS equipment and go hiking to test it!
If I gave the money to the ISP they would spend it on donuts or golf
clubs or ham radio equipment-- It would not go into better server
equipment... let's not talk about it!

Keeping all this IHPVA.org stuff going at the moment is very taxing for me.
I have about 10 minutes a week to devote to it right now.

The guy who does their system backups there and generally keeps all
the systems online is well... let's just say it's NOT his day job and
his heart is not in it. (That guy is, of course, me)

We currently have a bad Internet connection and unreliable equipment
but it's FREE!! Great huh? The only ADVANTAGE is that hosting is "FREE" there
because I keep things running. (They indeed pay me something but it's
NOT worth what I get.) HOWEVER since I started doing IHPVA.org hosting
costs have dropped from many  $100's per month to $6/month so it is no
longer worth keeping up this