[rasnell]

The biggest factor for me is even after Fidel's nobel and repeated efforts and how much we went through to recover from two hacks in the past month, it's clear that no measure of web security on our end was going to assure safety and security for the GMs because of the known flaws with the way OOTP handles FTP.

I'm disappointed that it has reached this point when online commissioners were reporting problems to Markus and Andreas a year ago and it's not until the eve of release of OOTP X that we now hear the prospect of some fixes.

I have patiently endured the many bugs of online play where the automator never worked and no one could ever answer why, where we had to figure out on our own that you had to turn the schedule grid off for league reports to load correctly, the other lesson that if you did not always include names.dat and retired.dat in your files, some GMs would get missing links or garbled data.

In addition, our league forum was getting spammed so ridiculously that we had to disable it. This was the place for league conversation, trade talks and tips for our new players. We turned that off two months ago because of the outrageous spamming that could never be blocked.

Despite all those glitches, we had tremendous fun and the web site for news and reports was the best. And then it turns out the feature that was the most fun is what led to the hack, the trojan and our downfall as a league.

This was such a great group. It definitely led to new recruits who had never heard of OOTP and it's all gone today for our little ole league.

I'm just one customer, with a few new recruits that I brought along with me, who concede that the hackers won. I don't know what they get out of their malicious sport.