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Re: gfhgfh

Nigel — Wed May 18, 2005 9:30 am

Author: Nigel

Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 9:30 am

Anonymous wrote:

On some other Future forums you can't even VIEW the forums without logging in.

That's just irritating. I wouldn't want to see LXF go that far.

Re: gfhgfh

Ram — Tue May 17, 2005 9:41 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 9:41 pm

My point exactly.

I have to login everytime with this box it just not remembering the settings.
I've just update FF to 1.03 lets see if that helps.
Cookies are OK just this site I have a problem with.

Ram

Re: gfhgfh

Ram — Tue May 17, 2005 9:40 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 9:40 pm

I have to login everytime with this box it just not remembering the settings.
I've just update FF to 1.03 lets see if that helps.
Cookies are OK just this site I have a problem with.

Ram

Re: gfhgfh

Anonymous — Tue May 17, 2005 6:08 pm

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:08 pm

Plus forcing people to log in will stop accidental guest posting

Doctor Flange

that was me above

Re: gfhgfh

Anonymous — Tue May 17, 2005 6:07 pm

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:07 pm

On some other Future forums you can't even VIEW the forums without logging in.

Re: gfhgfh

lxfadmin — Tue May 17, 2005 2:34 pm

Author: lxfadmin

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:34 pm

Guest posting is allowed only in the Help forum. The feeling was that if you were looking for help, you might not be on your usual computer, or it may not be working properly etc. Also, we always find it a bit annoying that you have to register on sites to post a simple message.

As for Mr ffgfgfg, we have taken steps to stop any reposting. As with the old site, we won't be discussing what these actually are. But he's the only one causing a problem, so it isn't worth getting upset about.

Re: gfhgfh

Nigel — Tue May 17, 2005 1:42 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:42 pm

mugstar wrote:

On some of the forums, yes. IIRC you could post to 'help' as a guest but not to the other ones.

Yes, that's how I remember it as well.

Re: gfhgfh

mugstar — Tue May 17, 2005 10:27 am

Author: mugstar

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:27 am

On some of the forums, yes. IIRC you could post to 'help' as a guest but not to the other ones.

Re: gfhgfh

smita034 — Tue May 17, 2005 10:18 am

Author: smita034

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:18 am

Wasn't guest posting disabled on the old site?

Re: gfhgfh

Ram — Mon May 16, 2005 9:36 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 9:36 pm

nelz wrote:

Banning guest posters would also reduce the usefulness of the site.

How? and in what way.

If guest posting was banned then it would tidy up genuine posters who forget to login or if there browser fails to log them in.

Ram

Re: gfhgfh

M0PHP — Sun May 15, 2005 6:55 pm

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 6:55 pm

For guest posting there should be the image re-typing procedure (can't remember the proper name for it) where a series of numbers and letters are presented as an image and need to be typed out exactly by the poster before it is submitted.

Re: gfhgfh

nelz — Sun May 15, 2005 5:57 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:57 pm

Are these people intelligent enough to use anonymizer services?

Re: gfhgfh

Flea — Sun May 15, 2005 1:55 pm

Author: Flea

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 1:55 pm

Quote:

I wonder if there's a way to block guest posting from IP address ranges.

Will it even make a difference? What with services like anonymizer around.

Re: gfhgfh

nelz — Sun May 15, 2005 1:32 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 1:32 pm

Banning guest posters would also reduce the usefulness of the site.

I wonder if there's a way to block guest posting from IP address ranges.

Re: gfhgfh

smita034 — Sun May 15, 2005 11:49 am

Author: smita034

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 11:49 am

Its a shame there are lamers like the "Guest" poster around, Admins should disable guest posting imho. else it'll just carry on.