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Fall Sports Notes

Just a couple of notable fall sports updates:

  • Boys Soccer regular season record – 14-1-1
  • Girls Soccer regular season record – 11-3-2
  • Boys Cross Country Dual Meet record 20-0

Website Abuse Update

After a spammer used this website to contact some number of users, I have spent some time trying to figure out the best countermeasures. Since the dimwit utilized the Alumni Directory Contact Form I immediately removed that feature. So if you have received one of these obvious scam emails from Wayne Alumni E-mail after Oct 16th around noon, please let me know (check the actual received date, not when opened).

After the initial panic of thinking I left some type of security hole in the website, a couple of days of looking things over has me somewhat relieved. All of the current protections worked as intended. The most feared abuse is a spambot that can automatically gain access to a form and send out large numbers of emails. This didn’t happen. I also don’t believe email addresses were compromised. It seems that this particular moron just did it manually, or maybe with some automation, but it certainly was not very effective, at least if quantity is important. I didn’t think anyone would be that desperate to go after this relatively small number of people the hard way. But its hard to figure out how an imbecile thinks.

But they did, and I have made some further changes to alleviate the problem. The Alumni Directory E-Mail is back on, but you will have to wait if you want to contact more than one person at-a-time. If you have any problems with it, or get any more of these bogus emails, please let me know.

Spammer

For years spammers have been trying to gain access to this website. There have been thousands of failed attempts of spambots trying to either register at the site or spam any of the forms on the site. Up until now, the built-in protections have worked.

We had our first instance of a spammer actually going to the trouble of writing a program or manually contacting a large number of alumni, which seems like a lot of work for 1850 possible customers. For now, I have disabled the contact form until I find a better solution.

Thanks to everyone who alerted me to the spam emails they received.

I will be closely monitoring the website for more trouble. I will also likely take a look at adding more safeguards to the email form. Thanks for your patience.

Homecoming Weekend

Friday, September 25

5:15PM Class Floats Parade (I think it begins at the Elementary School and ends at the High School)

7:00PM Homecoming Football Game
Fireworks Display?

Saturday, September 26

10:00AM Alumni Soccer Games

3:00PM Girls Varsity Soccer

7:00PM Boys Varsity Soccer

Alumni Association of Ontario High School & the Wayne Central School Dinner

The Alumni Association of Ontario High School & the Wayne Central School District is pleased to announce its annual dinner meeting scheduled for Saturday, November 14, 2009. This event is open to anyone who graduated from those schools – regardless of the year. The cost this year is $8 per person, or a $60 lifetime membership which would cover the admission this year for all the alumni in your household. We will be meeting at the Lodge at Casey Park 6551 Knickerbocker Rd. in Ontario, starting at noon. There will be a pot luck meal at 1pm. Please bring a dish to pass and your own table setting. Drinks, cups and napkins will be provided. As always (since 1917), the “brown derby” will go to the graduating class with the most attendees, so contact old classmates & encourage them to help you take the derby home! Also, each year the Association presents a gift to the school and/or the town. If you’re unable to attend this year, please send in $6 annual dues (or lifetime dues) and register so you’ll be sure to get the information about next year’s event. Bring your pictures, and join us for an afternoon of warm memories.
Questions or concerns may be directed to: Chris Wacenske Bray (’72) 315-524-8829 or via e-mail – using “Alumni Association” in the subject area to: [email protected]

Class of 1979 Reunion Update

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Class of 1979 30th Class Reunion – November 28, 2009 at Diplomat Party
House, 1 Diplomat Way, Rochester, NY 14606

Cost: $50/person

Make Check or Money Order Payable to: Class of 1979

Mail Money, Response and Request for Updated Information to: P.O. Box
204, Ontario Center, NY 14520

Response and Request for Updated Information and Photos due by: October
1, 2009
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User Submitted Photo Albums

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If you have visited the new Photo Albums page, you may have wondered if there was a convenient way to get some of your photos easily uploaded. Now there is. OK, maybe fairly convenient. If you go to this page and follow the directions given, you should be able to upload multiple photos at one time. Logging in is a requirement, otherwise bad people will do bad things. The log in will appear automatically if you are not logged in, and will bring you right to the page once logged in.

This isn’t used for your Bio, though it might be one day. To upload photos to your Bio, continue to use the Upload Photo to Your Bio link.

This new feature is for uploading a group of pictures that will reside in a photo album. This would be a photo album that would appeal to a number of Wayne Alumni. Maybe photos from a Class Reunion, or from the back in school days, etc.

A key element of this capability is naming the Photo Album such that the description will impart enough information that a user can decide to view it. Class year is a good identifier. Or an event name. The only other criteria is that it be a unique name. Right now, this is not checked, so it would be good to add something to the Album Name if it might be a name someone else might choose. Maybe add your initials. Maximum of 100 photos per upload. If you have more, make more than 1 album.

Also on that page, I have instructions on how to resize photos to speed up upload time and viewing time. This is very quick and easy on Windows with a small utility from Microsoft.

You can also access the page using the Upload Photos to an Album link in the Site Menu.

Let me know if you have any problems.

Cancelled – Class of 1977 Birthday Party

Dear Classmate of 1977

Due to lack of responses to a summer get together for our 50th birthday party, I have canceled the festivities.
Please keep your email address active and correct for future happenings. I am sorry for this inconvenience and appreciate the support over the years.

Carla

2009 Eagle

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The 2009 Eagle is out and here is a scan of the cover.

2009 Eagle Cover

I bet those rocks look familiar to many of you.

Thanks to Cynthia Kolacki from the Wayne Staff.