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tect folders. This means we would not have a way to limit access to the current month's issue to paid-up DVPC members.
Because we can't maintain our site under these conditions, we were faced with the possibility of having to pay a monthly hosting charge of about $25.00 with Verio or moving our web site somewhere else. We've been treated very well by cc:Net/Verio all of these years, so there are mixed emotions about a move. But because we don't want to have to pay $300.00 per year for web hosting, we decided the move was inevitable. And it has to be done soon: Verio began shutting down the web sites on the old server on April 21, and we will have to have our site relocated by May 21.
Value Net, one of our long-term advertisers and a great supporter of DVPC and Windows Night, has come to our rescue. They will host our site for free, will not impose a maximum disk space limit, and will support password protection.
We are working with Bruce Campbell and his technical staff to make sure that the move is accomplished without any extensive disruption. The site has been copied to the Value Net server, and changing the DNS (Domain Name Server) entries that are the pointers that tell exactly what IP address the dvpc.org URL can be found.
There may be a day or two where you can't get to our web site, but our site should be moved by early May.

We've had a large number of knowledgeable members sign up to be Mentors to allow DVPC members to take advantage of this storehouse of knowledge. We'll be adding a Mentor page to our web site "Real Soon Now" (apologies to Jerry Pournelle). This page will limit access to DVPC members by requiring the same monthly login ID and password sent to members for access to the current on-line edition of Diablo Blue. You'll be able to look up the mentors for a particular software package or hardware product, and contact them by email to pose your question. Because of a hardware problem, the Mentor page has been delayed. Check the DVPC web site in May -- the Mentor page should be up and running by the end of the month!