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UPDATE: 27 January 2000

HR-NET OUT OF REACH

On Sunday, January 23, 2000, our domain name HRI.ORG was temporary hijacked by an unnamed Turkish individual who exploited the domain name registrar Network Solution's poorly implemented systems and procedures. The hijacker pointed HRI.ORG to his own nameservers at DENIZONLINE.NET, thus redirecting traffic for HRI.ORG to his server. The effects of his actions were amplified by the fact that the registrar's staff was out of reach during the weekend and later because of the weather related office closing of Network Solutions.

We alerted DIALTONEINTERNET.COM (the ISP that provides connectivity and the actual server to DENIZONLINE.NET) on Sunday morning, however they chose not to take any type of action until Monday (shutting off the fraudulent nameserver) and not to take any meaningful action until Tuesday afternoon (shutting down DENIZONLINE.NET completely). The delayed response facilited the propagation of the false IP addresses for HRI.ORG through the Internet on Monday morning and caused a lot of email to bounce or being delivered to the perpetrator's mailbox. Likewise, our website appeared to be replaced by an irrelevant page on a geocities server.

Thanks to the dilligent efforts of the technical support staff of our ISP (BBNPLANET.COM), the correct nameserver addresses have been reinstated in the root servers and everybody should be able to reach our site by Thursday morning.

UPDATE: 27 September 1999

BBC GREEK SECTION

News from the Greek Section of the British Broadcasting Corporation is mirrored and archived on HR-Net. These brief bulletins are updated several times on every weekday.

UPDATE: 27 April 1999

NEW ENGLAND HELLENIC MEDICAL AND DENTAL SOCIETY

The New England Hellenic Medical and Dental Society (NEHMDS) created a home page hosted by HR-Net with information on upcoming events and scholarships, membership application and related links.

UPDATE: 24 April 1999

CYPRUS BROADCASTING CORPORATION

News from the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation are now available in Greek (ELOT928 and ASCII) and in English on HR-Net on a daily basis.

UPDATE: 27 February 1999

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT for 1998

The USA Department of State "International Narcotics Control Strategy Report" for 1998, which was released on February 26, 1999, is now available at: www.hri.org/docs/USSD-INCSR/1998/

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT 1998 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

The 1998 U.S. State Department Human Rights Report, released February 26, 1999. Selected reports on the Balkan countries including Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. It available at: www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Rights/1998/

UPDATE: 26 February 1999

HELLENIC RADIO NEWS (ERA)

Hellenic Radio (ERA) News are made available on-line both in Greek [in "ASCII" as well] and in English on HR-Net. Daily bulletins are archived among numerous other Greek news sources and distributed to interested readers via the HR-Net Personal NewsPaper (PNP).

Feedback, comments and requests are welcome.