I have just got off the phone with Marko.
It has been a very turbulent past few weeks for him. He was on sick leave
for three weeks at the same time the UNIX server at Oulu Polytechnic -
where he now works, and on which Vocalist.org is located - was hacked into
in a major way by a student from Sweden (who they finally tracked down and
caught). In addition, his new job at the Poly is much more demanding on
his time than his previous job at Oulu University was. In short, he was
too ill, and then too busy (and still recovering from illness) to pay
Vocalist.org much attention.
However, he did get the website back online yesterday, and he hopes to
have the List back up on Sunday (no promises, but this is his objective).
He told me that he will be on his long vac (8 weeks) in another month, and
after just resting for a few days, he hopes to do some major work to the
website. Apparently he has had offers from a number of record companies
and other music-related firms to advertise on the Vocalist web page (which
would help defray expenses); however, his current arrangement does not
allow for advertising. So he is thinking about what to do - whether to
stick with things as they are, or move Vocalist.org to an ISP that would
enable him to start taking advertising and, in essence, turn Vocalist.org
into a commercial venture (it would become, then, Vocalist.com I suppose).
So that is the status of things. I think sometime next week we will start
seeing Vocalist messages again, and we can then decide how to gracefully
put Vocalist-Temporary into suspension.
Karen Mercedes
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Der in den Zweigen wohnet;
Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt,
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