Prepare To Be Shocked

On September 21st of 1999, disaster struck all members of the AB/DL community. Evidence indicates that one of our own people (an AB/DL like you and me) did a very evil deed to hurt every one of us - out of pure selfishness. Here's the story.

First a little background. Since 1980 DPF has had one guiding, basic principle - to increase the happiness of adult babies and diaper lovers around the world. In recent years, this principle has been incorporated into DPF's web sites in unique and important ways, including: (a) a huge On-Line Roster, (b) "Rated" Link Pages and (c) the most popular AB/DL Chat Rooms and Conferences on the net. While all of these things are FREE to everyone, they cost DPF (Tommy personally) over $20,000 per year to create and maintain.

The principle behind DPF's Rated Link Pages is quite unique on the net. By permitting members of the community to "rate" Links, it is possible to eliminate the need to wade through almost 1,000 AB/DL sites to find what is best for you. This service has proven invaluable, for both newbies and experienced browsers.

Maintaining DPF's Link "Ratings" requires a considerable amount of constant effort, because a small group of people keep trying to manipulate their site Ratings by "loading" the system with false and/or duplicate ratings. For this reason, Rating "logs" must be examined every day to catch and eliminate dishonesty from the system. One particular member of our community was guilty of attempting to "load" the system in his favor almost on a daily basis.

There is strong evidence that this same person managed to "break in" to DPF's system on September 21st and delete part of the Link data base. Then he attempted to recreate his Link at the top of the rating system.

In one fell swoop he destroyed links and ratings that YOU and rest of the community had built during the previous year (for your mutual happiness). He did it out of total and complete selfishness (or jealousy). Although strong circumstantial evidence points to this person, it is not strong enough to make a public accusation. He knows who he is, and he will have to live with his guilt forever.

For a few days I wasn't sure whether I wanted to rebuild the system (at a cost of many thousands of dollars) or just let it slide away (because it is of absolutely no benefit to me whatsoever). Then my inner need to provide happiness to the community clicked in again, and I decided to rebuild the system from scratch and to make it bigger and better than before. Of course security and backup procedures were improved so it should not happen again.

It took quite a bit of time and money to do this. I hope you will all check the DPF Link Pages periodically.

Sincerely,

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