AmericanSurvivor.org

Archive for March, 2007

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Hi folks!  It’s been a while since I did any updating of the site because of all the other Live Free tasks I have.  We really do need some more active officers! We also have had some problems that made a mess of the site several times. So instead of improvements we spent time fixing problems.  We are going to make a few changes that should make things better, but for now I just updated a few things.  I put up a new Survival Stuff page with lots of interesting information.  I updated the Next Events page to show more about the May 5-6 survival-training program in Indiana.  I placed the first issue of our new newsletter AMERICAN SURVIVOR on a page by that name.  Unfortunately I hade to place a temporary suspension notice on the Survivor Papers page because this program is shut down due to lack of anyone to do the work.

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We had a major issue this past week with the website, with a massive, MASSIVE influx of unregistered users using our chat room, with over 6,300 of them in the database.  Let me just say that there was evil afoot, with a global reach.

I’ve removed the unwanted users…ALL of them, locked the chat directory with a password, will be installed the very latest version released today, and will publish a full report in the next newsletter about the events this week.

We’ve had the same problem with the phpbb message board, and I removed over 260 spammed users. I’ve recommended to Jim that we upgrade to a more powerful message forum as well.

So, at this time, the site is fine, but I’ll be doing program updates over the next couple of days.

If you notice any other site problems, please let me know.

Rich
Publications Director, WebMaster