http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news3763.shtml
I'll leave the interpretation up to you, but I'll just say that the Toms were exempt from this.
EDIT
heh I was right
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=35&mid=1108439110619377354&num=6
Go there instead. :p
Edited, Tue Feb 15 03:07:52 2005 by seraphimhunter