Regarding the "Vampires"...

[Arkcon]

I remember when the net still had free scientific information, some pictures of mineral specimens, and some fan sites. And, OK, a couple of sites with scans of nekkid people.

It still does. But it's clogged with people trying to make a buck. As if ARPANET (sp?) was designed to help some stay at home make money selling email. See this link

I use a software firewall, and Netscape's and IE's own blocking features. And a little program called pop-down. They block lots of that crap. I see it as a challange, when one of those pops up, I just learned another one to add to my kill file. Although, like you, I wish I didn't have to do this.

Take care.

[EDIT] I see now that this may be a specific complaint. Ah well, all may be better tomorrow, I hope. I make it a point of not being the first to click on any link I see. Esp. for emialed jokes at work -- someone else can spread a virus through our company.

Let's all be careful out there.

[ October 31, 2002, 19:06: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Wardad]

Odd, Sitting here behind my corporate firewall, I only had a hint of popups and problems with that vampire site. If I were surfing at home I might be as P.O.ed as GEO, but then again Norton may have blocked the worse.

I hope none of the sites I post cause problems.

[Perrin]

Well as an offender I wish to apologize. My Halloween jest (i.e. a trick as in trick or treat) was not meant to cause any annoyances.

I personally tested the link several times to see what the effect would be. Allow I did find pop-ups (a mild annoyance IMHO) none of the ones that I encountered gave me any issue. Yes there was one that when closed caused another to open but then it ended there. I was able to close all of them. I did not find any that were X-rated. I tested this at least 10 times before I joined the fray.

It was a joke and I hope that it was taken as such. Since it has caused a problem I will stop.

Again my apologies. No annoyance intended. Perhaps I will return to lurking I seem to be good at that.

[ October 31, 2002, 19:29: Message edited by: Perrin ]

[geoschmo]

Perrin, you are fogiven. I welcome you once again into the community of people who do not suck. Please continue posting. No need to lurk.

Geoschmo

[Rollo]

Well said, Geoschmo.

Rollo

[CombatSquirrel]

My opinion is that at the top of my form page it lists Forum Moderators...
people who have voluntarily accepted the burden of looking out for the well being of the forum. Almost universally fair people who do this sometimes difficult thing out of caring. Ego maniacs or power freaks don't seem to Last long in a position like that unless they own the board. Generally this is done without much thanks, and very little renumeration.

I'm a big fan of humor, but the seventh or eighth banana peel on a dark stairway smokes my chubby.

Thanks Geo.

CombatSquirrel
(High Honors Graduate of S.U.A. - Suck Up Academy)

[Ragnarok]

Ok, my turn... Sorry for any annoyance I may have caused. When I would visit the site I would get a max of 3 or 4 pop-ups. Which are sort of annoying, especially the one asking to change homepage. But I wholeheartedly offer my apologies to any and all of whom I annoyed with the link. I only used it once and that was too much. Again I am sorry and I will never do something so stupid again. Hope ya'll can forgive poor little old me...

I've always been one to hate annoying people, never have liked making one mad or what have you. I'm always the one to try and make friends and keep everyone happy in a group, sometimes it don't work, I overstep the line and that's it, for that I apologize once more.

To be honest, when I posted the link that one time, I thought everyone would be on to it by now and not go at all. I just thought I'd give it a try, but I shouldn't have and it won't happen again.

[ October 31, 2002, 20:02: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]