[DeTomaso] POCA website - belated thanks

[Mike Thomas]

Been off the forum for a while.  Wow, thanks guys.  Being one of the tech
challenged, it's folks like you that keep the rest of us humming these days.

Mike Thomas
VP, POCA

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at poca.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf
Of GR2835 at comcast.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 5:13 PM
To: poca email list
Subject: [DeTomaso] POCA website

To All DeTomaso email subscribers,
       The POCA website has undergone a major hacking that started in
January. We were unaware of the severity until Google issued a  block and
posted a list of reasons it was blocked. I immediately shut the site down
when I was informed by a concerned POCA member as to the Google posting. I
shut the site down and called the host server  and updated our SSL
certificate and reviewed what Google had posted. The realization that it was
really bad is an understatement. 
       I called the two POCA members Asa Jay Laughten and Mark McWhinney
that had managed the site in the past and updated them on the severity of
the hack. These two guys jumped in and started working as team to try and
save as much information as possible from the website. I can't begin to tell
you how awesome these guys were at bantering ideas back and forth to come up
with solutions. The end result is the pictures and much data have been
rescued. The email server has been restored  and updated to a much newer
version....( You are receiving this thanks to 3 days of endless
keyboarding)...and the basic web page has been updated to the newest version
that will do much more than in the past when things get installed and
initiated. These  two guys gave up their long weekend to preserve the site
and I know we're mentally exhausted last night when they stopped.
     I hope that everyone floods their email with thanks for what they gave
up to save the POCA information and get the servers up and running with new
and improved everything.
   Cudos to you guys.......
Gerry in Illinois
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