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July 30th, 2001, 05:45 PM
Many of you have noticed that the board has been acting strangely lately. This is due to a virus that has been spread around the internet. It sends random files to addresses that are cached on a persons computer. Because dumblaws.com is a popular site, many people have our email addresses stored. As a result, we have gotten literally thousands of random unwanted files. This has caused our hard drive on the server to fill up. Therefore, the message board can't write to the server and it loses everything it was attempting to do.

Even if that makes no sense to anyone but me, here's the bottom line: I should have a permenant fix in place soon, and in the meantime I have a temporary fix in place, so things should work smoothly.

If you have sent me any *real* email message lately, please resend them. I'm not sure what did and didn't survive the virus.

Thanks for the understanding.
Andy