About This Web Site

• Click on the logo at the top of every page to return to the home page.
• Click on any horizontal blue line to go to the top of the page.
• Areas under construction are marked with an orange barrel --
• This site uses "magic cookies" to store information about identified Members and Guests between browser sessions. The cookies are used to customize the presentation based on membership status, and to log page accesses. Cookies are required only for access to members-only pages; if you are a non-member you can get full functionality from the public pages even if you refuse cookies from our site. If your browser can't handle cookies please let me know and I'll try to find a work-around. A better solution may be to upgrade your browser to one that actually supports cookies --- I am unaware of a current version of any available browser that does not.

  If you are a member, you must at least accept the cookies on a per-session basis in order to use the members-only area. The members-only cookies are used as one component of a multi-tiered access control system, and as such are not optional for access to this subset of our site.

• Personally identifying information: While you are welcome to leave your name and personal contact information on our guest book, doing so is not necessary for most of the features of this site. If you do provide your name and contact information, it will be used only to reply to you in direct response to requests you make. Personal information that you provide to us is never shared with any other organization.
• On the subject of page access logs: All access to this site is logged whether you identify yourself or not. If you don't tell us who you are then we still keep a record of what site accessed our pages, and the HTTP requests made by that IP address. Those with nasty intent should be aware of that. Our access logs are scanned by the webmaster daily for signs of potential abuse, and when no abuse is detected the logs are deleted immediately. We keep no long-term archive of access logs, except when a particular log shows sign of abuse; logs kept in the event of abuse are retained only long enough to resolve complaints with the offending internet service provider. In all the years of this site's operation (since 1997), that has been required only two or three times, and the logs were kept for a little over three days while we communicated with the ISP of the offender.
• If you are a new member, or a member who has signed the guestbook and mistakenly said you were a guest because you didn't know the team password, then you need to delete your cookie and redo the guestbook. Follow the instructions below as if your name was incorrect.
• The name which appears at the top of every page is the one that the server gets based on the cookie you have. If this name is *NOT* yours, then you're sharing an account with someone and you'll have to reset the cookie; of course, so will the other person next time. Here's how you do that: first, click on the link with the incorrect name in it. This will present you with a page asking if it's right to assume you're that person. Click "No, I'm Not!" and the incorrect cookie will be deleted. To get the correct cookie, if you're a guest then all you need to do is sign the guestbook. If you're a member, then you'll have to go directly to the membersonly page and log in, whereupon you should see a link at the top asking you to get a magic cookie. Click on that link and you're done.
• I have attempted to make this web site useful without respect to what browser you use --- particularly, I have worked to make the pages Lynx (text-only) friendly. If you encounter broken links, missing images, or are using a text-only browser and see *any* evidence of missing ALT tags (e.g. [LINK] or [IMAGE]) please let us know and we'll fix it as soon as we can. Note that the page-reference counters will not work if you're using a non-graphical browser, and those lines are appropriately uninformative in that case.

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