www.stopsylviabrowne.com hacked?

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Apart from the foolishness of publicly suggesting people should 'pay a visit' to specified people at specified addresses, I think it is contrary to the calm, civil and approachable culture that should be associated with anything RSL related. It's an unintimidating image he has worked hard to develop and maintain, and it's disappointing to me to see people offer to be bullies in his name.
 
chillzero said:
Apart from the foolishness of publicly suggesting people should 'pay a visit' to specified people at specified addresses, I think it is contrary to the calm, civil and approachable culture that should be associated with anything RSL related. It's an unintimidating image he has worked hard to develop and maintain, and it's disappointing to me to see people offer to be bullies in his name.
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For the record, I'm with Chill on this. I hope it was all empty threats, done with a sense of humor. However, Robert does NOT want anyone retaliating against someone in his name. The a-- h--es got away with it. There's nothing we can do. Let's move on.
 
Thanks Susan.

RSL's better half said:
I hope it was all empty threats, done with a sense of humor.
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I'm certain it was. However, good intentions and so on can still be misinterpreted by others. We know the site has its enemies. I just feel we shouldn't give them the ammo.

Anyway ... hopefully the web situation is well on way to being resolved, and given a permanent home with a catchy address.
:)
 
Wow! I wondered where the regular updates at SSB had gone! I only just heard the shocking news today.

Best wishes for the speediest and fullest possible recovery, Rob. I will follow your "better half's" updates avidly. Hope to see you back on the Web soon.
 
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Thanks Susan.


I'm certain it was. However, good intentions and so on can still be misinterpreted by others. We know the site has its enemies. I just feel we shouldn't give them the ammo.

Anyway ... hopefully the web situation is well on way to being resolved, and given a permanent home with a catchy address.
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For my part, I apologize, especially now knowing that although this was somewhat scummy, it wasn't illegal.
 
I'm of the opinion that dastards should always be confronted face to face. Not necessarily with intimidation or aggression. In this case to let them see that there are REAL people behind the website that they scurrilously obtained. And also to let them know that we think they are indeed dastards.

However, if it's the Lancasters' wish that they are not confronted face to face, then that should be honoured.
 
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RSL's better half said:
For the record, I'm with Chill on this. I hope it was all empty threats, done with a sense of humor. However, Robert does NOT want anyone retaliating against someone in his name. The a-- h--es got away with it. There's nothing we can do. Let's move on.
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hcmom said:
For my part, I apologize, especially now knowing that although this was somewhat scummy, it wasn't illegal.
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And that's why I said that posting the address wasn't the best idea. I know I'm not the only Angelino poster. I don't know how many Angelino's are lurkers.

Confronting them face to face is so not a good idea. Neither is writing letters, calling, or anything else other than the paths that Mrs. Lancaster and her studly assistants are taking.
 
Well, this whole thing has certainly convinced me to look somewhere other than GoDaddy for domain registration for the company website I am planning to launch in January. I am not suggesting they did anything wrong, but that I will not be able to count on them should anything happen to my domain.
 
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Well, this whole thing has certainly convinced me to look somewhere other than GoDaddy for domain registration for the company website I am planning to launch in January. I am not suggesting they did anything wrong, but that I will not be able to count on them should anything happen to my domain.
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Indeed. And this is not even the first instance of someone having a serious issue with GoDaddy's services (one instance was a client of my SO's company who'd had her business' website broken by GoDaddy's managed server staff "fixing" code on the pages -- not necessarily with permission *ahem* -- to "remedy" a "security flaw").

Due to this whole debacle with RSL's sites I found myself assessing their domain registration agreement (amongst others), and realized that it was worded in ways as to take advantage of legal loop holes in their agreements with ICANN such that GoDaddy has set themselves up to be able not just to reap a profit upon someone's domain name lapsing (back order functions on domain name listings, auctions of expired domains, etc), but also to make it possible for them to avoid deletion of the domain name once it lapses (which would almost immediately interrupt it's search positioning and also make it painfully obvious to the original owner that the registration had lapsed) by having a clause that states that the registration agreement for a particular website will not be considered terminated as long as you have active registration agreements for other websites, or other services, through GoDaddy. They also have a clause that states that you give them permission to transfer ownership of any past due domain names (after 42 days) on your behalf. And since ICANN's regulations state that a registrar must delete delinquent domains within 45 days of the termination of the registration agreement -- not the delinquency! -- well, you can probably see how GoDaddy's contract benefits.

It's all quite shady. Legal, as far as I can tell, but definitely shady. I'd stay as far away from them as possible.
 
SkeptiChick said:
It's all quite shady. Legal, as far as I can tell, but definitely shady. I'd stay as far away from them as possible.
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I agree. I own many domain names, and over the years I've used a few different registrars. I remember looking at godaddy a while ago and deciding against using them.

I'm a web site developer, and I run a web hosting business. Sometimes I register domain names on behalf of clients, many times I register domain names for my own web sites. I prefer dealing with registrars with straightforward policies.
 
'Former' Grandmaster is not right, GM titles are awarded for life. You can be a former chess player, but even Kasparov still is a Grandmaster.
Kreiman's rating has not changed since April 2006, indicating that he has not played competitions or tournaments since then, so he might be a former chess player.
I think he should stop using the title, he is giving chess a bad name.
 
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We're not still going on about it being Kreiman are we? I thought it had been shown that its just a cover name for whoever did this(which appears to be this Cathy person)
 
dbalsdon said:
We're not still going on about it being Kreiman are we? I thought it had been shown that its just a cover name for whoever did this(which appears to be this Cathy person)
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What makes you say that?

From what I can gather, he's not involved in the chess academy website any more and is venturing into new businesses.
 
dbalsdon said:
We're not still going on about it being Kreiman are we? I thought it had been shown that its just a cover name for whoever did this(which appears to be this Cathy person)
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They may be a couple.
 
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