MG Car Club of South Australia
CLUB REGISTER UPDATING AND
SECURITY
From ..Ken Burke Secretary of Registers
H
ello fellow MG Club members.
During my last twelve months as
your Secretary of Registers, I have been
encouraging the updating of all the Club
Registers and now have a substantial
record of most of your vehicles. There
has however been some reluctance by a
number of members to have their vehi-
cles on a register mostly based on secu-
rity concerns.
I have heard your concerns and have
been investigating a means of satisfying
them.
My most effective solution is to keep the
record as a Data Base on a separate
computer with no on-line facility. This
would effectively guarantee the security
of all information from hackers and the
like. For safety reasons, a backup copy
would be kept on a USB stick in the
Club safe. The computer itself would be
passed down to future Register Secre-
tarys who would be obliged to imple-
ment the same security measures.
The Data Base information would only
be available to the current Secretary of
Registers, with individual registers avail-
able to the Register co-ordinators, and
individual records available to the future
owner of the vehicle, but will not be
available for publication on the Club web
site or elsewhere without your specific
authorisation.
Should anyone out there have any fur-
ther concerns, please let me know, and I
will do my best to satisfy them. I can be
contacted by email at ken-
bur@bigpond.com or by phone on 0488
541 646, or in person at most Club
events. Any such contact may remain
anonymous and or confidential if you
wish.
As the whole purpose of having regis-
ters is to maintain a record of the cars
for future owners and generations of
owners, I believe it is important to have
as complete a register as possible for
the benefit of those future owners. Who
will be driving your car in twenty or fifty
years time? I’m sure they would like
some history of the car, just as we
would today.
So come on you guys and gals out
there, if you own a car or have recently
bought or sold a car let us know and get
as much information as you can to your
register co-ordinator, or direct to myself
if you prefer.
Register Co-ordinator contact details
are contained in the Committee listings
at the front of this magazine.
Please help us out with this significant
undertaking of recording your pride and
joy for the future.
Happy MGing to all.
Ken
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