[Coco] forums restore

[Sean]

Wow.  Looks like a spammer got in again today.  I do not envy your
admin job right now...




On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Roger Taylor<operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> At 06:37 PM 7/7/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> The CoCo forums have been restored to a date a few weeks prior to the
>> recent damage.  To anybody affected, please let me know if you can log in
>> under your original account, etc.  Any messages posted in the past week went
>> into the bit bucket.  I'm also going to delete at least 100 bogus forum
>> accounts (some are obvious) and do some database optimizing.
>
>
>
> Folks, give me time to restore the database yet again back to the July 5
> 2009 copy.  The one I just uploaded was from 2008.  I'm still looking for a
> May or June 2009 copy and have asked my host to look for one as well.  They
> came through for me in the past after a bot attack.  This is what I get for
> running a site. This is what I get for using the software that the rest of
> the world uses.  We have security holes in MySQL, PHP, Apache, Windows,
> Linux,..  It's either run a site, or not.  They always seem to get us when
> we're slacking on our backups.
>
> I don't blame anybody for not posting right now while I work out some kinks.
>
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