Greetings all,
We eliminated our TNGenWeb Bulletin Board last night. If you have links
to it, you should remove them.
Reason.
First I received this message:
"I have just went to look at the page to check on a message I posted and
I seen a response to my query when I opened it, it was all F*** U all
over the page so I went to check on my friends query and it looked like
she had placed a personal ad looking for a lover or something. Someone
has truly ruined this whole site. I hope you can repair it. I am deeply
upset that someone can come in here and ruin all of this info for so
many people. sincerely . . . ."
I wrote Nancy, she took one quick look and immediately disabled our main
page link to the Board, then removed everything of ours from the actual
Beseen bulletin board site.
When we first checked the site, we found that there were bulletin board
messages being posted on a rotating basis that were of sexual nature. In
other words, when we clicked a link to a message, we would get an
inappropriate message. If we later click the same link, we would get a
different inappropriate message. Additionally, some of the messages
contained *very* revealing photos.
All of the actual genealogical messages were gone and unfortunately none
were savable. Both Nancy and I managed to save some of the "evidence,"
and I must have even more in my cache file of my browser. We will
attempt to find the reason why the failure occurred but whatever the
reason, the failure occurred at "Beseen."
We will also look into establishing a replacement board, but not at
Beseen.
Fred Smoot