A request for web assistance

Robert Bushman plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:32:21 -0400 (EDT)


I hate to be the ogre that would impune the
honor of diabetic children, but can anyone
validate this? The text doesn't sound like
a child, it sounds like an Asian spam-list
troll. The site looks like it was put together
in about 3 hours, and has no pictures of any
children or any facility (foundations
love having a picture of their site on
the front page).

Suppose it is real - as Dennis notes, there
is no way AT&T would shut them down for
wanting to use a password. AT&T isn't stupid,
they know that shutting down 900 diabetic
kids wouldn't play in the media without
a damned good cause.

What USian calls the position "web master"?

Heck, forget spam lists - I wonder if anyone
sent an FTP username/password before even
talking to Karl.

Sorry if I'm being overly cynical.


On 9 Jul 2002, Bryce C wrote:

> What sort of web space?  I can give 20Mb at most on my site and
> possibly, if Cox doesn't object, a lot more on my home server.
>
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 22:38, Fred Wright wrote:
> > I got this from the Lockergnome Penguin Shell.  Does anyone have the
> > interest/ability to lend a hand?
> > =========================================================================
> > Helping Hand
> > Scribbled by Karl Steenblik
> >
> > "Dear Linux community at Lockergnome.
> >
> > "I am the web master for largest health care camp in the State of Utah. No
> > not Cancer camp it is the Diabetic camp.
> >
> > "The Foundation for Children and Youth with Diabetes serves about 900
> > diabetic children a year and their families. We have education, family
> > support, diet planning and most important is camp. The place where kids can
> > learn about how to better manage their disease.
> >
> > "We are a totally non profit camp that puts all money from fees into our
> > camp. We pay no salaries to Physicians, Dietitians, Social Workers, Nurses
> > and educators that make our camp possible. Yes even me the lowly web master
> > donates his time and web space at ATT to the cause.
> >
> > "ATT recently decided to pull access to our photo page due to a password
> > protection. We give out a password to all parents so that they can see
> > photos of camp while the sessions are happening. We do not however what the
> > creeps of the web to have access to photos of our kids.
> >
> > "We are looking for someone in the state to help our camp by donating web
> > space. Now it may not be your organization, but I know Linux people and
> > Lockergnome and I think someone there may know someone who would be able to
> > help us.
> >
> > "You can still have access to the public part of our site that ATT has not
> > shut down at www.fcyd-inc.org.
> >
> > "Please I have the parents of 120 diabetic kids wanting to see photos of
> > their children. They are all e-mailing me and I have no one to turn to.
> >
> > "Hoping to hear from someone soon."
> >
> > Karl R Steenblik
> > Webmaster FCYD camp
> > Salt Lake City.
> >
> >
> > Fred Wright
> > fawright@earthlink.net
> --
> Bryce Chidester
> Network Administrator
> CoBryce Communications
> Bryce AT BryceCo DOT Net
> http://www.bryceco.net
>
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