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Links To Porno Sites

Russ Fairfield

>These porno site links are still being attached to ligitimate messages. The most common is a link, but they are starting to appear as an unlinked address within a message. This requires reading the content of every message, and there are now about 125 of them in the average day.

I do not monitor this site 24 hours a day. I do have another life and I am still an active woodturner. I have been trying to check in as often as possible to remove these links and messages. Sometimes there is a delay of several hours in getting to them, sometimes overnight, and sometimes I will miss one of them entirely.

I would appreciate your patience in keeping these pages clear of the trash.

The following is a response to those who have sent me personal E-mail messages complaining about insufficient monitoring of this site. It is also to those who have objected to my invasion of their Constitutional Right to say anything they please on this forum........

I suggest that you send an e-mail message to Ellis and volunteer to assume the duties of monitoring this site. Then I can send YOU nasty e-mail messages.

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George Van

>Russ, I am sure most of us understand the links cannot be monitored continuously.

The one that appeared on my post was obviously a porn link by reading the text in the link and could be easily avoided and did not have to be opened. It is a shame that people that have the talent to do these things don�t put their talents to useful ventures.

Thanks for the great website, George

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Bill Grumbine, Kutztown PA

>Hi Russ

I for one would like to say publicly that I think you are doing a great job, mainly because we don't notice it most of the time. It is sort of like the person who picks up the trash. No one notices what a good job is being done until the trash starts to pile up. The volume on this board has increased dramatically in the past year, and you are to be commended to keeping up as best you can.

I don't care for the porno links myself, but then again, I do not feel compelled to click on them to see where they go. I can't do much about the billboards I have to drive by on the road either, so I just drive by and ignore them too. I think this is a great place to exchange info and to socialize, but you are right, there is more to life than the internet. Keep up the good work and do not let the naysayers get you down.

Bill

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Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>These sites are, apparently downloading a trojan to any computer which hits their site(s) as part of the initial page load.

IF YOU CLICK ON THE LINK, YOU GET THE VIRUS!!!!!

You will then need to do an immediate scan and destroy with updated AV and spyware (bot) S&D-ware to get rid of these things. If you wait, you may find yourself in Sean Troy's situation of having to wipe your drive and reload from disc and external backups.

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#5

Amen Bill

Barbara Gill, Remlik Virginia

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100% Agreement

Chuck Ludwigsen

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John Lucas

>I agree. Good job Russ. I see very few bad things on this board and then I simply ignore them. I've had a computer killed by virus and spyware. I've tried to install preventative measures but not being a computer person I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm guessing there are many in my shoes.

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Darrell Feltmate

>Russ

I am with Bill on this one (as many others).

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#9

Bill, you'r talking sense again!

Jean Michel

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#10

Russ, this reminds me of

Ruth

>a group of church women who came to the library with a petition to "get that awful, digusting Howard Stern OFF the air" because of his "filthy" language. I wouldn't sign because I told them they already had all the control they needed......the "OFF" button on their radio!

Bill, you said it perfect!

Ruth

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Ron Sardo in PA

>I didn't read everybodys post so if I'm repeating what has been said - soory about the wasted bandwidth.

Russ, I figure you must be doing a good job because this is the first I heard about porno sites.

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Paul Norton

>You must be doing a great job Russ.

I read the board about 5 times a week and have had no problem with inappropiate links.

Thankyou.

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