Gambling Federation resigns membership from GPWA
March 18, 2005
In a statement today, sent to John E, and Marlene Derossett, owners
of Gambling Portal Webmasters Association, http://www.gpwa.net
, Talia Paschini, Public Relations Manager for Gambling Federation,
http://www.gamblingfederation.com , announced the resignation of
Gambling Federation from membership of the Gambling Portal Webmasters
Association, effective immediately.
“Gambling Federation has been in partnership with GPWA
for sometime now, and it’s sad to see them go, especially
under these circumstances” stated John. “Gambling
Federation has taken steps to correct the situation, and I hope
that we can once again work together soon”.
The situation being spoken of, involves the altering of the hosts
file, which resides in the root directory of ones computer. The
Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names.
This file is loaded into memory at startup, then Windows checks
the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers, which enables
it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access to the
listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the
local machine. What they had hoped to achieve, was to prevent the
spamming of their clients from certain other places, who allegedly
had possession of the players database, which was stolen from Gambling
Federation some time ago. You can use a HOSTS file to block ads,
banners, cookies, web bugs, and even most hijackers.
During talks, in which GPWA imposed sanctions upon Gambling Federation,
who readily accepted these sanctions, it was agreed that Gambling
Federation would pay a fine in the amount of $5,000.00 to Gambler’s
Anonymous. That agreement was Reached on March 14, 2005, and Gambling
Federation decided today, that they would also act on a self imposed
sanction of resigning membership.
Part of the statement from Ms. Paschini read: “We are
voluntarily stepping out of GPWA forums so that GPWA can go back
to normal. We think you have had enough stress and emails
so far by the so called "malware" situation. Everything
has been explained and told about this issue, there is nothing more
left to say. We made an error, we are remorseful, and we repaired
it. You recognized this in us and we are grateful.”
“Gambling Federation has in fact, always been responsive
to queries and requests in the past, and I have no doubt that they
will work diligently to set things right and regain the trust that
they once had and worked hard for from players and affiliates alike.
I for one, look forward to the day when this happens, and we can
once again work together as we have in the past.” Stated
John Derossett.
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