(in reply to SoI Kills and the long thread that followed) A semi-public message board is like a city bus. You can make and enforce some elementary rules like "no smoking", "no skates" etc (incidentally, when I was a kid the signs said NO SPITTING and smoking was permitted), but you can never control everything at 100%. Some passenger might annoy another with his remarks, so
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Once you replied to my mail, I enabled your account. That was the confirmation, so there's no need for you to create a new account; everything should work fine now. Z
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There are three moderators putting in a couple of hours each every day. One of them lives 10 or 12 time zones away from the others, so their work is nicely spread over the day. Thus, on average, approval shouldn't take more than a few hours. Then again, it's all done on a volunteer best-effort basis, so if someone is sick or on holiday, or simply quarreling with her wife[*], appearance
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QuoteFirst i didnt get a confirmation email, when i signed up using hotmail hotmail is notorious for (a) its overloaded incoming servers and (b) its over-zealous spam filters. QuoteSo then i tried using gmail and i got the confirmation, but now it says a moderator has to approve the account, and i haven't heard anything back. I wonder if i am just being too impatient? How long does it ta
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Quote...while I can log into this forum I can't log into or post comments at Cult News Network's website... They are two completely separate websites, with separate accounts and authentication systems. QuoteI use Firefox on a Linux Ubuntu OS. I have registered (it was a while ago so I can't remember if I registered first at CultNN or on this forum, or both. Nonetheless I can�
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You can't re-register; at least not with the same e-mail address, because it's "taken". In any case, trying to circumvent the problem haphazardly is not constructive, so let's actually find it and solve it instead. There could be a charset problem. Do you have any funny characters in your password? If so, use the "did you forget your password?" link to reset
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Quotegrateful1I went into my tools/internet options and have accepted all cookies etc and I'm still having the same problem! Hmm, very strange. But OK, let's say you log in successfully, try to post, and end up on a login page again. What happens if you enter your username and password again? The normal behaviour of the board is to ask again for your username and password every t
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Your browser must accept cookies. If it doesn't, the server can't remember you and you will be asked to log in each and every time you try to do something that only logged in users can do, e.g. post. Z
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Well, Raisley has survived longer than I would ever have expected, much thanks to his brutal stupidity. Like the Neanderthaler, sort of, who also survived way past his prime time while cementing his own destruction. Anyway, I think Raisley took the point this time. The attack on Rick's server stopped on Monday. And an attack on my own server which begun on Friday, stopped today. In the meanw
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QuoteJohn FoxPerhaps we could employ the Slashdot effect ... in terms of propagating the article? No, not just yet. If you play out good cards too early, you'll have to play too high in the next round. Let's see if Raisley can get back to his senses and only then escalate again. I have a whole stack of cards up my sleeve; /. would be only one of them. Z
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Yeah, they're spreading. Not as fast as I hoped, but yet: Raisley knows this, but he doesn't know when to call it quits. Too bad for him; he'll end up destroying himself. Z
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Update 2008-03-28: It seems there is no need for any more copies of the article. Big thank you to everyone who helped. === This message board is now again the target of a massive DDoS attack. That's why everything is slow and unresponsive right now and that's also the reason why the board was down all of the weekend 7-9 March. The attacker is the same fruit basket that has been att
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If your e-mail address is hidden, what you describe is not possible. I would assume either coincidence (same or similar spam sent separately by mail and as PM without any connection between the two) or that you received mail notifications of the PM spam, but not the spam itself. Or perhaps, if the spam was sent as a "reply via PM" to an existing posting and you had checked "send re
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Are you saying that you got spam as private messages on this board? Or in your regular e-mail? If you receive private messages on this board and they are spam, please report them by PM to rrmoderator, so the spammer can get banned. Z
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There was no trace of you in the system; none whatsoever. I now registered you with the username and e-mail address in the parent. I checked and verified that the confirmation mail was sent and was correctly received by 74.220.207.108. So you should have it. Of course you will need to recover your password once your account has been activated. Z
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From September 26 to December 14 the www.culteducation.com website was continuously under a DDoS attack by a loonie in Arkansas who thinks he can control the flow of information on the Internet. After December 14 we had two weeks of rest. Yesterday the attack started again, this time against this forum. As a result, the forum was working very badly yesterday and for a few hours not at all. I&
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QuotedwestWhen I log on every couple of weeks, the majority of my read private messages are marked as "unread". There is no option to mark them as "read" which makes it hard to determine when I actually have a new Private Message. See for an explanation of why your previously read PMs now appear as unread. There is a way to mark them read, namely to read them. This wou
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QuoteRuthEarlier today I tried to register, with a username and a password. The message came up that I would receive an email to confirm my registration. That was several hours ago now but despite checking my spam / junk folders and my inbox regularly I haven't received anything yet. The confirmation mails are sent out instantly so, unless there is a glitch in the mail system of this serve
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Quotekath Hi I think I tried to just use 'reply' at the time and it didn't work. And started a new thread. And this time too. It did work. All "responding to a thread without quoting - changed?" postings are in the same thread. You can verify this by looking at the forum thread list: "responding to a thread without quoting - changed?" appears only once and all
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Quotekathunless i quoted a previious poster using the board's quoting function, it didn't post my reply to the thread, but instead started a whole new thread Immediately under each message you have, among others, the options "Reply to This Message" and "Quote This Message". Both will create a reply in the same thread, the only difference being that "Quote This M
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The delay is indeed long, but inevitable. There are almost 30.000 registered users on thsi board. This means that 30.000 user names have to be pulled from the database on the server and then get downloaded to your computer before the list will appear and you can scroll it. It's bad, but right now we all have to live with it. At least 60% of those 30.000 registered users are spammers who
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Received by e-mail and posted anonymized by the sysadmin: ... posting a message, I had an awesome wait for the name list to be able to scroll, and could not just enter the name , and go straight to it. I know this may be due to a slow computer, but nothing else is anywhere near that slow. I found, eventually, that person's message box was full.
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You have two different search boxes on the search page. One says "Search messages" and the other says "Search authors". You probably used the former. If you search for the username that you mailed me with the "Search authors" field, you will get lots of results. Also pay attention to the search delimiters. By default, a search will only look for postings in the p
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Oh, one more thing: you should ONLY enter your e-mail address in the appropriate box. Not your name, not quotes or angle brackets around the address, nor anything else. The correct format is username@domain.tld .
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Please read the instructions in the sticky posting titled "How to use this forum", in particular the part about being very, very specific and the part about being fanatically pedantically specific. For example, I do not understand the phrasing "the message came back that it was invalid". Did you receive an e-mail saying so? Or was it a system error on the control centre we
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You don't say how you tried, nor what problem you run into. The way to change e-mail address is to log in, then click on "My Control Center" at the top right corner, click "Edit Email Settings" on the left, change the e-mail address in the box and click submit. A verification e-mail will be sent to the new address, containing a verification code. Copy/paste that code
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Submitted by a user by e-mail, posted here anonymized: I'm posting under <username withheld>. I attempted to change my email address from <address withheld> to this addy, but the system wouldn't allow it.
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QuoteThen, said that I had a full mailbox, so I moved some messages to a folder, and when I returned, the message still said I had a full mailbox. There is a hard limit of 50 stored PM messages. That's the total you can store, no matter how you distribute them in folders. Therefore, moving messages from one folder to another won't help any; you need to reduce the total by deleting mes
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Problem submitted by a user by e-mail, posted here anonymized: Then, said that I had a full mailbox, so I moved some messages to a folder, and when I returned, the message still said I had a full mailbox. I attempted to send another member of the site an email, and I think that failed, also.
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With a message board the size of this one and thousands of users, comes the inevitable stream of technical support questions. I can't log in, please help me; my posting didn't show up; my PM mailbox says it's full even after I deleted some messages; I lost my password, please mail it to me... No matter to whom these questions are sent, they always end up in the inbox of the sysadmi
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