Some DNW Calendar Recent Event Postings May be Missing

The popular Delta News Web calendar was offline from last week until earlier today. It was offline because we lost the database that operates the calendar due to a webserver move.

The database has now been restored, but we lost the most recent calendar items.....perhaps as much as three weeks worth. If you have posted events in the last month, please be sure to check the calendar. If your event is not there, you will have to repost it.

My apologies for the added work to restore those items.

David Johnson
Publisher

DNW Calendar Change

Chalk up another frustration with the spammers.

Today we pulled the plug on anonymous Community Calendar submissions. It was possible until today to submit a calendar event without a username and password, but not any more.

The problem was an increasing number of troglodytes (I'm trying to pick a nice epithet, here) that tried to advertise all kinds of ......(searching for another nice word) ..... things on our calendar. The editor has been deleting an increasing number of these -- about 200 in the last few days.

It has been taking enough time that we decided that we just can't do that any more.

What this means is that if you have a calendar event you want to appear in the Community Calendar you'll need an account. That's not much of a problem, just contact us with a proposed username and password, and we'll set up the account so you can post. You can also call 1 (907) 895-4919 during normal business hours (9-5 M-F Alaska time) and we'll set up the account for you.

This is actually better than it sounds because not only will you be able to submit events, you will also be able to edit and delete your events at any time that is convenient for you.

David Johnson
Publisher