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CONTACT CHANGES
Many are unaware of things that happen behind the scenes on the administrative side of PC. Over the seven years we have been collecting your dues money, we also have been spending it with our web guru to not only fix things on the site, but also to protect the site.
We approve every new member and that is a manual task, not done automatically. At the very least we look at every IP address, something we were forced to do because for quite a few years of our existence we had people who were probably going to do harm to the site trying to register and get a password. The situation got so bad we have had more than 8200 registrations, but we only have about 3800 members who have received a password, with the rest being deleted. Most of those deleted had IP addresses from places in the world that are known for hacking or doing damage to sites or who might try to harvest member information.
That onslaught shifted a while back and we now almost never see the bad guys trying to register. Now the problem has been an overwhelming number of people with Russian or other email addresses who are sending emails to our admin webmail. Tom and I have attempted to block them, but it is a waste of time. I think we get 5 to 10 of these potentially dangerous emails daily. So we now will not accept admin emails from anyone not registered.
If you need help resetting a password make certain you now find a post by Tom or I and you copy our emails. If you are not logged in you cannot send an admin email to get your password so you can log in.
If this is found to be an issue we may have to have our web guru spend even more of our dues money to solve this dilemma. I see a problem here, but the hours Tom and I spend dealing with people who will do us harm has to stop.
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Wow! Seriously, that’s all I can say. Good luck and thanks very much for your hard work.
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You can also just go to “Contact Us” on the home page and send mail that way as long as you’re logged in.
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In another thread Tom has pointed out a password retrieval button. If you forget your password the system will help you get back on the forum.
We think the changes our web guru recently made will cure or at least slow down the number of bad emails sent to us through the admin email. So far so good because for the second morning I have not received any.
One very important point to remember is the email address you used to register is critical because if you wish to communicate with us via the admin email or need to retrieve your password if the email address you are using or provide does not match with the one on file you will not get access. If you wish to have a different email address on the registration you must communicate your wish to make a change on the email account we show. This will offer protection from someone wanting to do you or us harm.
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