Sorry, Annon.

[den]

Due to the multiple copies of porn spams, annonymous posts are now screened. I'd rather not see the spam at all, but that would mean disabling annon. comments and I don't want to do that.

Back in the old Fidonet days you could say to someone "Shut up and go away" to express your annoyance. When everyone in an echo told a poster to Shut Up And Go Away, they either left the group or began posting messages that didn't make people tell them to Shut Up And Go Away. It would be really nice if the majority of the internet users showed the maturity you found in a Fidonet echo, even in an echo like LTUAE which was once described as a fight with baseball bats, and occasionally two combatants would lean against their bats and have a coversation.

Fidonet rule #1: Do not be excessively annoying
Fidonet rule #2: Do not be too easily annoyed.

Spammers: Shut up and go away. You are excessively annoying.

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Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. I haven't received any LJ spam (yet), but enough of my friends have that I've also begun screening anonymous comments.

[chezmax]

I seem to recall being 1:221/something.smoething I was a point for a little while, but I can't remember what it was. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

The livejournal dev folks have a "enter this number from this graphic to post your comment anonymously" thingy in the works.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Would this restrict anon. posts to registered users or ???

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

From the description, it sounds like it would support humans without accounts (although it might hamper blind users--not sure about that) but would defeat spambots.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Hm. Yep, that kind of thing is usually inaccessible to anyone who needs a screen reader. They might be able to cobble up a workaround for the visually impaired using alt tags, but I imagine the spambots would be able to use that, too.

[makovette.livejournal.com]

The LJ guys also have the text in the image "read" as an audio file for screen readers specifically to accomidate blind 'net surfers.

See http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_backend/2913.html for the interesting info.

CYa!
Mako

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I'd like a "ban this i.p. number" thingy, with wildcards.

[timrhodes.livejournal.com]

Ah the FidoNet days. I was a SySop of "The Hard Drive Cafe" and volunteered as FidoNet mail distributor back in the day. I remember the those "golden" rules well. Too many people these days have no sense of courtesy, electronically or otherwise.

btw: I ran T.A.G. and wrote freeware apps for it.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

As an occassionally arrogant, always brilliant, and very fun web programmer friend said to me once.... "the problem is that anything sufficiently cool will no doubt be discovered by the populace at large, and henceforth be spoiled. Perhaps we should leave the internet to the masses which now flock to it as it has become more and more accessible, and those of us who actually have something to say can go back to 128 bit encrypted languages." I poured him another Guiness and we laughed all night *snerk*

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

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ahhhh

memories

[kayshapero]

Y'know, Fidonet is still there, though of course much smaller these days. Not that this stops various folks from having noisy arguments over who's running the show (ever see what happens when a pond full of catfish almost dries up and the fish all flap around in the mud? [at least the fish finally give up, dig in, and estivate 'til the water comes back]) I'm tempted to quote you to them.

But I'm still there, mostly because I'm still moderating the Babylon 5 echo. That and NC102, due to not ducking fast enough.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I deleted Binkley eventually when I realised I wouldn't be hooking up again. It felt like I was closing a chapter.

The nodelist was 1.2mb How large is it now?

[kayshapero]

I just ran the latest nodediffs this morning, and the nodelist is .9mb. Still too big for me to use the whole thing on my system, but I've used a cut down version consisting of region 10 and a few other out of region nodes I email occasionally for years. In fact Nicolai started the practice back in the days of FurNet, the contents of which long since decamped to the net.