Dear FrontSight,

We appreciate your understanding in our attempts to prevent spammers/scammers on MAF.

Today, despite our efforts 2 slipped in and sent over 650 messages in a 5 hour period after staff members checked the site.

Once again, we apologize for any inconvenience.

Hello FrontSight,

Lately you may have noticed that you may have received e-mail messages advising that you have a private message on MAF.

When you log on the messages are gone. This is because the ADMIN and Staff folks have identified the sender as a Spammer and have deleted their profile and messages.

Most of these messages give you an off-site e-mail address to contact the spammer. Once they get to know you they give you a sad story where they ask you to send them money.

Because we value your privacy, the MAF folks will diligently continue to keep this a safe site for everyone.

THIS MESSAGE IS FROM FISHSURF, PLEASE REPLY TO HIM NOT ADMIN. THANK YOU! KENZGIRL
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THIS MESSAGE IS FROM TARNSHADOWHAWK, PLEASE REPLY TO HIM, NOT ADMIN: THANK YOU! KENZGIRL
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I wanted to remind you that the Battlefield Weapons Tournament is this weekend, April 4-5. Check out the offical website (www.BattlefieldWeaponsTournament.com) for directions and details.

We have decided to offer registration at the gate, so if you wanted to enter but forgot to send in your paperwork, you have a second chance! Since this is a suprise offer we will not be raising the price for \"late\" entries.

I hope to see many of you there.

Charles Adams

The information below is from FRANK WILLIAMS, aka RYUJIKAN as a public service message:

If you use Championsway for Billing you need to view this link immediately:

http://www.championsway.com/alliance/

Please notify your friends and colleagues so they are not caught unaware.

Sincerely,
Frank Williams

THIS MESSAGE IS FROM JOHNGPHD. PLEASE REPLY TO HIM,NOT ADMIN. THANK YOU! KENZGIRL

Friends:

The OKA has a public website at oka-us.com. Please go visit it and if you are an Okinawan practitioner or just have an interest in Okinawan Karate, join us.

Sincerely and OSU, John Gagnon

THIS MESSAGE IS FROM ALDOTHEDRAGON: PLEASE REPLY TO HIM. THANK YOU! KENZGIRL


Grand Master Helio Gracie 1913-2009

On Tuesday morning Grand Master Helio Gracie was tanning at his ranch in Brazil, and on Thursday morning at 9:15 he passed away due to natural causes. His legacy will survive forever in all members of the Gracie Family, jiu-jitsu practitioners around the world, and all those who have benefited the revolution he began.

In his final years, the creator of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu often spoke of his satisfaction with his life’s work. He openly stated that he had accomplished everything he had set out to do, displaying his preparedness for the transition into the afterlife.

The Grand Master believed that such a transition should be seen as a positive step in ones spiritual evolution and requested that upon his passing, his life be celebrated.

To honor his request and his legacy, the Gracie Academy will host a celebratory gathering for Saturday, February 7, 2009. The event will begin at 5:00pm and, if need be, we will have an additional session at 6:30pm. Everyone’s invited.

THIS MESSAGE IS FROM JOHNGPHD, PLEASE REPLY TO HIM, NOT TO ADMIN. THANK YOU! KENZGIRL


To: All persons who are members of the Okinawan Karate Association on the MAF site or any other persons who practice a form of karate that has its roots in Okinawa.

The Okinawan Karate Association is larger than this site. In the next year we will be building a larger web site, be hosting competitions, organize an annual meeting with award diner, etc. This is a serious organization for those who believe that Okinawan styles are more alike than are different and that many of them have the same lineages from the oldest Masters of Village-Ryu in Okinawa.

Those individuals who wish to become members of the larger organization should send $45.00 for hand made certificate in Kanji and English, life time membership, elegibility to compete in OKA tournaments, the sharing of style information, videos of kihon / kata and historical knowledge that would take a lifetime to learn. We are more than a unified group of practitioners, we are also educators of the wealth of information that exists for enthusasts of Okinawan culture and the origins of what we have come to call \"Karate\" in Okinawa.

All members will receive the e-OKA-gram on a monthly basis.

Join today by sending a brief resume of yourself, the name you wish printed on your certificate, your home address, your email address, telephone numbers and a check (credit cards are not yet accepted) to:

The Okinawan Karate Association / 233 Oaklawn Avenue / Stamford, CT / 06905

OSU, Master John Gagnon, President for 2009