[Beth Sweet]

Jackie,

While I thank you for your concerns regarding this issue, I hope that you realize that those who were weary were trying to protect their mentors.

Personally, I wasn't too fond of the idea. It was not a usfirst.org website, nor a usfirst.org email address. That automatically raises red flags to someone whose father's credit card has been stolen 4 times, 2 of which were online transactions. Yes, we were only asked to provide names, however when I clicked on the link sent in the email sent to me, the page did not exist, I had to follow the link in this thread.

Which brings me to my next point on how the site likely was hacked. The email's content was posted in this thread in an attempt to verify validity. There are hundreds of spiders here each day, and I imagine that the website was logged onto by one of those.

I am continuously grateful to all of the senior mentors out there and hope that they can all step out of the shadows a bit so that if a similar mass blast needs to be sent out in the future, we'll all know who it is from, and trust without confusion