By Admin1 (admin) (76.213.146.106) on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 5:04 pm: Edit Post |
We're Back
Thanks to everybody for your understanding as we moved through this difficult transition.
We're Back
For the last several weeks we have had to disable posting on PCOL.
We had to take this action because the web site had been under an automated Denial of Service Attack by spambots that were attempting to post thousands of spam link messages on our site to pornographic and gambling web sites.
We have now upgraded the software that powers our message board onto a powerful new platform with extensive anti-spam features and have been running tests for the past few days to ensure that we are able keep posting completely open and keep spam out.
Thanks to everybody for your understanding as we moved through this difficult transition.
One beneficial byproduct of the transition to a new platform is that our new software has many additional features that we will be rolling out in the next few months.
Again, thanks for working with us through the transition - it's great to be back.
Best Regards,
Hugh Pickens
Publisher, Peace Corps Online
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Headlines: August, 2008; Internet
When this story was posted in August 2008, this was on the front page of PCOL:
Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Dodd vows to filibuster Surveillance Act
Senator Chris Dodd vowed to filibuster the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that helped this administration violate the civil liberties of Americans. "It is time to say: No more. No more trampling on our Constitution. No more excusing those who violate the rule of law. These are fundamental, basic, eternal principles. They have been around, some of them, for as long as the Magna Carta. They are enduring. What they are not is temporary. And what we do not do in a time where our country is at risk is abandon them."
What is Wrong at the US Embassy in Bolivia?
Last summer Peace Corps Inspector General David Kotz cited the lack of cooperation from the US embassy in Bolivia in the search for missing Peace Corps Volunteer Walter Poirier III. Now a member of the US Embassy Staff in Bolivia is accused of asking Peace Corps Volunteers "to basically spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans in the country. Could US Ambassador Philip S.Goldberg please explain what is going on at the embassy that he has been running in La Paz since 2006?
Read the stories and leave your comments.