# Ruby-forum.org defaced
**URL:** https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212
**Category:** ruby-talk
**Created:** [28 March 2005 05:09 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212 "2005-03-28T05:09:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Sutherland1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tim_Sutherland1)
#### Post date: [28 March 2005 05:09 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/1 "2005-03-28T05:09:48Z")
[http://www.ruby-forum.org/](http://www.ruby-forum.org/) has been defaced for several days.
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### Author:  [@HAL\_9000](https://rubytalk.org/u/HAL_9000)
#### Post date: [28 March 2005 05:38 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/2 "2005-03-28T05:38:19Z")
Tim Sutherland wrote:
> [http://www.ruby-forum.org/](http://www.ruby-forum.org/) has been defaced for several days.
I'm not familiar with that site. What is/was it?
Hal
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### Author:  [@Navindra\_Umanee](https://rubytalk.org/u/Navindra_Umanee)
#### Post date: [28 March 2005 05:40 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/3 "2005-03-28T05:40:55Z")
A pretty thorough job. It seems the Ruby forum has been replaced with
PHP-based software!
Cheers,
Navin.
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> Tim Sutherland \ wrote:
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> > [http://www.ruby-forum.org/](http://www.ruby-forum.org/) has been defaced for several days.
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### Author:  [@Alex2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Alex2)
#### Post date: [28 March 2005 06:11 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/4 "2005-03-28T06:11:52Z")
The Ruby Forum is "down for maintenance" after a number of security breaches on the server where it was hosted. The maintenance will probably include changing the hosting arrangements, and relaunching on RForum (a Rails-based BBS written by Andreas Schwarz and yours truly).
P.S. Forget the passing woodpecker - what will destroy civilization is an evil bastard with spare time.
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> Best regards,
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> Alexey Verkhovsky
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> Ruby Forum: [http://ruby-forum.org](http://ruby-forum.org) (moderator)
> RForum: [http://rforum.andreas-s.net](http://rforum.andreas-s.net) (co-author)
> Instiki: [http://instiki.org](http://instiki.org) (maintainer)
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Sutherland1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tim_Sutherland1)
#### Post date: [28 March 2005 06:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/5 "2005-03-28T06:49:47Z")
A web discussion board. Last time I checked it was very active, especially
with new Ruby users.
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> In article \<4247982F.7060609@hypermetrics.com\>, Hal Fulton wrote:
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> > Tim Sutherland wrote:
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> > > [http://www.ruby-forum.org/](http://www.ruby-forum.org/) has been defaced for several days.
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> > I'm not familiar with that site. What is/was it?
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### Author:  [@tony\_summerfelt](https://rubytalk.org/u/tony_summerfelt)
#### Post date: [31 March 2005 12:27 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/6 "2005-03-31T12:27:09Z")
it's unfortunate that the few bugs phpbb2 have had, were nasty exploit
bugs.
if new forum software is considered, elog may be one to check out...
[http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1](http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1)
telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org
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> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:49:47 +0900, you wrote:
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> > > > [http://www.ruby-forum.org/](http://www.ruby-forum.org/) has been defaced for several days.
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> > A web discussion board. Last time I checked it was very active, especially
> > with new Ruby users.
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### Author:  [@Alex2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Alex2)
#### Post date: [31 March 2005 13:47 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/7 "2005-03-31T13:47:59Z")
tony summerfelt wrote:
> it's unfortunate that the few bugs phpbb2 have had, were nasty exploit
> bugs.
"Unfortunate" is putting it mildly.
> if new forum software is considered, elog may be one to check out...
Nope. It will be RForum ([http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac\](http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac%5C)), because Ruby Forum is one of the two BBSes that it was originally written for 🙂
It will be back up in a few days.
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> Best regards,
>
> Alexey Verkhovsky
>
> Ruby Forum: [http://ruby-forum.org](http://ruby-forum.org) (moderator)
> RForum: [http://rforum.andreas-s.net](http://rforum.andreas-s.net) (co-author)
> Instiki: [http://instiki.org](http://instiki.org) (maintainer)
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### Author:  [@Shalev\_NessAiver](https://rubytalk.org/u/Shalev_NessAiver)
#### Post date: [31 March 2005 23:31 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/8 "2005-03-31T23:31:50Z")
Hello,
I would like to contribute to the RForum project.
I just got the latest source from subversion, and I've already made a few minor changes/fixes.
However, I'm new to trac and subversion, so how would I go about submitting my changes?
-Thanks
Shalev
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> On Mar 31, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
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> > tony summerfelt wrote:
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> > > it's unfortunate that the few bugs phpbb2 have had, were nasty exploit
> > > bugs.
> >
> > "Unfortunate" is putting it mildly.
> >
> > > if new forum software is considered, elog may be one to check out...
> >
> > Nope. It will be RForum ([http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac\](http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac%5C)), because Ruby Forum is one of the two BBSes that it was originally written for 🙂
> > It will be back up in a few days.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Alexey Verkhovsky
> >
> > Ruby Forum: [http://ruby-forum.org](http://ruby-forum.org) (moderator)
> > RForum: [http://rforum.andreas-s.net](http://rforum.andreas-s.net) (co-author)
> > Instiki: [http://instiki.org](http://instiki.org) (maintainer)
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### Author:  [@Andreas\_S2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Andreas_S2)
#### Post date: [7 April 2005 21:19 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-forum-org-defaced/17212/9 "2005-04-07T21:19:46Z")
Shalev NessAiver wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to contribute to the RForum project.
> I just got the latest source from subversion, and I've already made a few minor changes/fixes.
>
> However, I'm new to trac and subversion, so how would I go about submitting my changes?
Hi Shalev,
that's nice to hear. You can enter "svn diff" in the root directory to see the list of local changes. Save it to a file ("svn diff \> changes.txt") and mail it to me, I will add it to the repository.
Thanks
Andreas