[Richard T. Eger]

Dear All,

I couldn't agree more and for my friends here I am ever so grateful.

Let me bring you up to date on the current status of things. To begin with, I am not a website expert. I use the administrative tools available, but when it comes to looking under the hood and tinkering, I am out of my league.

Thus, when I have dialoged with 24hostingnow where the site is located, their suggestions, some of which I can follow and others I can't, I am left in a state of great hesitation, what I early on called the fear of pressing the wrong button only to see a small mushroom cloud arise from my monitor.

24hostingnow did what they could, but the spamming has continued. I raised the sensitivity level of the site's Spam Assassin software, but, in reading how Spam Assassin is supposed to work, the type of spam I am getting wouldn't be affected, which has proven to be the case.

I realized that I had a resource I had not involved and that was my son, David, who, himself, happens to be a computer scientist working at Google. Why did I take so long? Well, typically my problems have dealt with Windows and this is a subject that David has stayed away from. So, typically, he wouldn't be able to help. But, dealing with a spam attack and delving into code is actually something he can wrap his arms around and he has agreed to try to help. I'm hopeful that he can pull off a miracle. He's a pretty savy CS.

In the meantime, I continue to look at each registration, as about 1 in 10 or 20 is actually legitimate, and these I do authorize.

Failing success in this area, a stopgap measure would be to halt all registrations, meaning that the site would be read only, except for those already registered. I'm not sure we can do this, but I would suspect it could be done.

That's where things stand at the moment. This is a very pernicous spam attack. 24hostingnow has not been able to defeat it.

Regards,
Richard