namahatta.org - Congregational Development Ministry

Within one hour I'm going to leave for South India, searching for an ayurvedic clinic or asram to take care of a variety of disorders that have developed in this body I've been carrying around for the last fifty-one years.

Generally South India has a better tech infrastructure than West Bengal, and I hope I will be able to continue looking after this website. Still, there may be some delay activating new user accounts and fixing imported articles that require manual attention (Google maps, embedded video or audio, or formatting irregularities).

Today I've noticed that many of our readers arrive at our site with browsers that have been infected with some nasty adware from FunWebProducts. This software offers smileys, cursors, and other fancy looking stuff for free—but you have to install their "search assistant" and browser toolbar in the process. This will change your homepage settings and generally take you to places you never intended to go.

Hare Krishna, please accept my humble apologies.

I just noticed that our front page doesn't render properly in Internet Explorer 7, and perhaps other versions of that browser, too. Unfortunately most of our readers still are using it. (Did I mention that and are much better?)

I'm aware that most of you won't change your browsing habits because I say so, or to be able to see our front page in it's full glory; I'll have to fix whatever needs fixing to make it display properly in Microsoft browsers, too.

This request for IM (internet messenger) association appeared on chakra recently:

At namahatta.org we have a content channel named Internet Preaching, which I created for devotees to share their contact details, ideas, and experiences using the internet in general, and IM services in particular.

At this address you can see a list of devotees and their internet messenger-IDs (as of now, there's only Gita Govinda Mataji's. Please add yours). And here you can submit your own contact details and explain what type of preaching or association you are interested in. You don't even have to create a user account for this. (However, if later you want to edit the info about yourself, you'll need an account with our website.)

your servant,

phani
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Not http://namahatta.org/~
But http://namahatta.org/~, please!

Some modules I want to use to manage online-groups and write-permissions for their members require our web site to be located in the root-directory of our web space. Therefore I moved the site from a sub-directory (nh2/) to the server's web root (/). Attempts to re-direct visitors coming from older links to the new location have not been fully successful, though. If you use the previous nh2/ - path, many pages return "page not found" errors. I'll try to fix this as soon as possible, of course; but if you are using bookmarks, or find that links from some of our articles that still point to the old location don't work, please change the address to exclude the "nh2/" - part.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
your inapt web-servant, phani.

PS: Wow, I think I figured it out, finally. If you do encounter problems, 'page not found" or "internal server error," please let me know!

Still, it's better to adjust URLs in your borwser, feed-reader, or wherever to the new one: without "nh2/".

Hare Krishna, please accept my humble obeisances—and excuse this ghastly pictures on the left, just trying to get your attention.

Due to a recent increase in SPAM-attacks I've instigated various blocking procedures, unfortunately with partial success only. Being frustrated in their attempts to provide us with information about various stimulating drugs, porno-sites, and dubious stock-market tips, some of the nastier fellows have taken to bombarding our server with up to a dozen page-requests within two or three seconds—enough to stop others from accessing the web site and drive up our bandwidth use, for which we have to pay.

I spent hours today trying to make sure that I'm not blocking IP-addresses used by our readers, but errors are not only possible, they are likely if not certain to happen.

We don't have any "restricted content" at namahatta.org anymore; all articles are open to everyone. If you're seeing this message you tried to do something your user-role doesn't permit you to do—perhaps you have been trying to access an administrative function, or post an article without the necessary permissions.

Anonymous users, anybody visiting namahatta.org who doesn't have a user-account (or didn't bother to sign in) can post comments, which will appear after being approved by one of our editors.

When authorized users (the default user-role after registration) post comments, these will appear immediately on the web site. Authorized users can also post userlinks (links to other web sites with an explanation or summary), which will have to be approved before being published. If you subscribe to one of our content channels you can post pages, which will appear immediately, but only within their respective channels. Within a channel you can add pages to existing online-books, too.

If you would like to contribute regular articles related to congregational development and preaching, please write to me, and after being assigned the user-role author you can do that.

At namahatta.org/blogs you can write your own blog, which doesn't necessarily have to deal with congregational matters only. Again, please write to me.

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