Fwd: IMPORTANT: Server Fire Affects WWW2006 Submission - Please Read

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> *** PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON RESPONSIBLY TO ALL COLLEAGUES WHO
> *** MAY BE CONSIDERING SUBMITTING PAPERS/PANELS/TUTORIALS TO WWW2006.
> *** PLEASE EMAIL YOUR TRACK PC MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO PASS THE   
> MESSAGE ON
> *** BUT DO NOT USE THE OFFICIAL WWW2006.ORG MAILING LISTS!
>
> Due to a serious fire at the University of Southampton, UK, the   
> www2006.org website and mailing lists are temporarily unavailable.  
> We  expect that services will return soon (and may even be restored  
> by  the time you read this email). In the meantime we apologise for  
> any  confusion that the outage may have caused.
>
> THE SUBMISSION PROCESSES have been unaffected by this fire, only   
> information about the submission url, deadlines, tracks, document   
> formatting etc has been affected. A temporary replacement website  
> has  been set up with all the information for submitting papers,  
> panels  and tutorials. The paper deadline still stands at midnight  
> November  4th 2005, Hawaiian time. The panel and tutorial  
> submission deadlines  are also unchanged.
>
> TEMPORARY WWW2006 WEBSITE: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ but SHOULD  
> be  visible at www2006.org
> DIRECT ACCESS to the paper submission website: http://  
> www.openconf.org/www2006/
> TEMPORARY EMAIL FOR ENQUIRIES: lescarr@gmail.com
>
> Information about the fire can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 
> 1/ hi/england/hampshire/4390048.stm.
> ---
> WWW2006 Co-chairs: Les Carr, Dave De Roure, Arun Iyengar
> WWW2006 PC Chairs: Carole Goble, Mike Dahlin
>

Received on Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:27:30 UTC