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Dear Mr. Heigl,
I have been asked to respond to your June 29, 2005
email to American
Mensa's web coordinator. For reasons previously provided by American
Mensa and its attorneys, American Mensa disagrees with your positions
and is unwilling to redirect the minnesotamensa.org domain name. Should
you wish to post information on Minnesota Mensa's website, please
contact Minnesota Mensa directly.
Thank you for your concern about Minnesota Mensa, and
in particular your
concern about the proper forwarding of Minnesota Mensa-related email. We
will forward your concern to Minnesota Mensa.
Sincerely yours,
Clif McCann
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Clifton E. McCann
Venable LLP
575 7th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-1601
202-344-4000; 202-344-8300 (Fax)
202-344-8162 (Direct)
cemccann@venable.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Al Heigl [mailto:webmaster@minnesotamensa.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:38 PM
To: WebCoordinator@AmericanMensa.org
Subject: RS: Unauthorized tampering with Local Group website access
Importance: High
Originally sent Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:19:14 -0500
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Dear American Mensa Web Coordinator:
You have recently come into temporary possession of
the domain name
registration for the Minnesota Mensa website, minnesotamensa.org.
(I say "temporary" because it was done in direct
violation of Section
IIID of the Mensa membership by-laws, and once *that* aspect of it is
sorted out, I will expect the domain name registration to be returned to
us forthwith.)
At any rate, temporary registration assignment of our
website domain
name in no way implies permission to tamper with access to our website.
Somebody at your end of things, whether through
ignorance, gullibility,
and/or malice, has improperly moved the DNS pointing to a different name
server and, instead of keeping it pointed where it belongs, has set up a
redirect to a very wrong location -- our old former website
(mnmensa.org) which was decommissioned almost three years ago, and has
unfortunately been a rogue site ever since. (Lately, it looks like it's
been turned over to some high school kids to practice their "blogging"
on.)
As Minnesota Mensa Webmaster, I have given no one
permission to redirect
our domain name away from our website, nor do I have any intention of
doing so in the future.
This mistake needs to be corrected, and quickly.
I respectfully request that you have our domain name
minnesotamensa.org
pointed correctly to our actual website.
(I believe aiming it at
http://64.246.62.111/~minneso/
should do it.
You'll know that it's right when the home page that comes up is the same
as the home page at one of the reference mirror locations
http://www.millcityrecords.com/mnmensa/.)
Since it would be unbelievably dumb to have done
otherwise, I will
assume that whoever made this error still has kept the mail forwarding
aliases intact, so that e-mail to, for example,
locsec@minnesotamensa.org will reach the intended recipient. (And we
have a new LocSec and First ViceSec as of 5/31/05, so those ones may
need to be updated.)
I will thank you in advance for your prompt attention
to this matter.
Sincerely,
Al Heigl
Webmaster,
Minnesota Mensa
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Alan Heigl
Mill City Records
P.O. Box 177
Northfield Minnesota 55057-0177
507-663-6090
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