Website Information

The website cutover originally scheduled for April 23 was slipped to April 28th because The Public Information Subcommittee was doing a major event the 25-26 & 27. The 2008 CAADE Conference, one of the flyers produced for the event addressed locating helpline numbers and websites. Many people who attend professional conferences of this nature bring laptop computers - and we decided it probably wouldn't be prudent to take even a remote chance that our website would be down during the conference. Bitwise our new webservant didn't like the schedule change much, but when he was remided of the reason why we call him our webservant not the webmaster he quit crying and got with the program.

After the Website has been moved a number of new services will be provided please re-vist this page after that has happened, and your cheerful Web Servant Bitwise will provide information on these services as they become available.

The first change will occur at the instant we switch to the new server - hence the reason for the appearence of this page. All e-mail sent to webmaster@orangecountyna.org will be bounced back to the sender with a notification that they must visit our website to findout how I can be contacted.

To contact me click on Email the WebServant at the bottom of the Page, or to email me from outside of the website send email to: Webservant/ÄT/OrangeCountyNA/DÖT/-o-r-g

I understand that the ID looks cryptic at first glance but simply type it making the obvious substitutions for the cryptic stuff. This is something a real person can easily figure out; but it NOT something my feeble minded bot brethern can handle.

They have nothing better to do but sift through websites looking for character strings that fit the eMail id format 'userid' '@' 'domain-name' '.' '3 letter domain type' so they can dump ton's of spam on them.

Guess what user id is the ground zero priority 1 target! Yep - it's mine - in fact they don't even bother picking up webmaster@domain-name.domain type they simply spam it by default with opportunity of a lifetime chances to make money by linking to the website they are promoting.

The problem with using a spam filter to deal with the problem is that you don't want to just delete everything without looking at it so what you need to do is save it in a spam bit bucket on the server until a person sifts through the bits so you don't miss valid eMail. Unfortunately valid eMail sent to the Webmaster just shouldn't be missed.

This is why the eMail id webmaster@orangecountyna.org had to cease to exist. The spam that has collected on our Regional Server since it went live 2 months ago is 14,000 and rising and a whole bunch of it is to webmaster@ -- we have a region and 14 area websites, and each area that moves onto the website is bringing with it a tidal wave of spam if they have not already dealt with the webmaster id problem.

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