Please accept my apologies

[George Spellwin]

M.O.D,

First, I don't have time to read all of the boards much less the PMs. Secondly, I do not know how to read the PM's. And third, I would not read them if I could.

As I understand, it is technically possible to read the PMs -- as I believe our director of security could if necessary, but it is not possible to read elitefitness.com email. M.O.D, I have always appreciated your positive contributions to the boards, but when I was told about the hacking, I had to protect the site.

M.O.D, I know you are knowledgeable about bodybuilding, and you are certainly knowledgeable about computers, I would have hoped you would have used your abilities to more productive ends.

 

[George Spellwin]

George,
Very appropriate response in light of the infraction. That someone hacked the board is certainly not your fault- it may be that the large influx of moderators(which with the addition of all the boards was necessary) may have compromised the system.

peace

Thanks Macro,

We have now installed logging software that will let me know when mods delete or lock threads. Thanks again to our members for their patience.

 

[maxes21]

Mr. Spellwin, is there anyway you can totaly ban him from using this site, cause the way i see it, is if he did it once he will do it again, just out of anger that u did ban him. its sad that he went and did this, since we all knew that pm's were not encrypted. good work George.

 

[Dutch windmill]

WTF

 

[str8cubano]

very strange

 

[manny78]

Could someone tell me why M.O.D. did this ? I knew from a long time that he had hacking skills. He helped many members to trace scammers.... this whole story sounds weird...

 

[Slopain]

Could someone tell me why M.O.D. did this ? I knew from a long time that he had hacking skills. He helped many members to trace scammers.... this whole story sounds weird...

How could anyone other than him say and why would he tell you the truth about abusing the board - if you look back at some of those 'stings' he was doing there was alot of talk sometime the sources caved in and sometimes it was just left in the air with no follow through on the talk. I doubt MOD will give you an honest reply to why he hacked the board.

 

[Riker29]

Hey George,

Hats' Off to you for looking into this, placing the necessary resources into it to figure it out, then taking action.

To all of you whiners asking for proof - its George's board. This is a business. I am sure he has far better things to do than to have this investigated and to use up time and money to do it. If George says someone was hacking into things, I would believe him.

Plus, lets be honest, its not easy for a Board Operator (and business owner) to actually admit that something like this did happen. Most people (owners) ignore such warnings, or when they DO find problems, they just stop it and never admit to it publicly. George went out of his way to actually TELL us what happened, admit it, and actually apologize for it.

So, MOD is gone. Period. Later.

NO ONE, regardless of their level of expertise, is worth keeping around if they are very disruptive.

I help run a Seduction email list, and every once in a while some newcomer (who may be quite skilled and may have something to add) shows up and think they can do whatever the hell they want .... and disrupt everything. Well NO ONE, regardless of what they DO know, is worth it if they bring too much trouble. When these guys show up and start to create problems - I kick their asses OFF. Period.

Good work George.

 

[CRAZYPITBULL]

Wierd.

 

[crimson coal]

That's to bad. He seems very knowledgable and I was always interested in his posts. Seemed like a good guys too.