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Call this a forum????????????
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Author:  Guest [ Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Call this a forum????????????

98 registered users... and about 6 contributers... mostly from admin!!!! What a great forum!!! Has the admin set this forum up for their
own benefit!!! Incestuous is the correct word here!!!! And totally biased.

Author:  captain cab [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:52 am ]
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thats the trouble with incest, its all relative :lol:

regards

Captain Cab

Author:  Dusty Bin [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:00 am ]
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Anonymous wrote:
98 registered users... and about 6 contributers... mostly from admin!!!! What a great forum!!! Has the admin set this forum up for their
own benefit!!! Incestuous is the correct word here!!!! And totally biased.


Oh dear.

You really should stop your 'friends' using your computer, Mr Scanner!

Dusty :D

Author:  Sussex [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:47 am ]
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Must be really busy in his office. :shock:

Still they will be when OFT investigate the Brighton taxi operator's cartel. :shock:

Author:  Guest [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:44 pm ]
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For your information Mr Bin... and Sussex.. no one has been near my pc. Just because someone has knocked the site does not mean it is me. I think you are paranoid.

I reckon sussex posted it because he misses me sooooo much :lol:
scanner

Author:  Dusty Bin [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:26 pm ]
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You must have a poltergeist then Mr Scanner, or someone has been using your computer without your authorisation, because it's the same IP address as the last messages, ask AOL if you don't believe me.

Either that or it was you all along, I never did believe your 'friends' story.

Dusty

Author:  Tom Thumb [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:43 pm ]
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As I was saying to Andy7, there are clearly some well educated posters on here.

They use all sorts of big words, shall I ask my sister or wife was incestuous means?

Don't bother, they are one and the same :lol:

Author:  Guest [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:15 pm ]
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There is absoultely no way whatsoever that the posting came from me, or indeed my pc or indeed my IP address. I can only conclude that it came from another aol address.

My IP address is: 195.93.33.11 What is the IP address of the posting?

I am not so petty as to post stupid time wasting posts. Why would I be so stupid when I know, as a web site owner myself, that all visits can be traced!

I will tell you my own personal thoughts about this site:

I find it very informative with some very knowledgable people making a valuable contribution, and giving a mix of different views from different parts of the UK. Extremely healthy indeed.

It is an excellent source of up to date news on the trade.

However, at times it can be bogged down with a few petty arguments and nit picking.

I would have liked to have contributed more but I do not have the time to be involved with long, drawn out arguments.

Quote Sussex "Must be really busy in his office."

I dont work in any office. And Sussex, this time of the year is in fact my own busiest time as I also buy and renovate property. I learnt to do this many years ago for kipper season. And for someone who boasts of making over 5000 posts I think you must be the one twiddling your thumbs :wink:

Dusty, why on earth did you not just delete the post in the first place. I would suggest that if you have any such postings in the future that you delete them straight away and not accuse me of making them.

I will continue to drop in and Scan for interesting topics and any news that may be available but hope that my name is not used again as the propargator of offending posts. You have got my full IP addess, as provided above, so you will see whenever I look in of indeed make postings.

I envisage that you will indeed compare the IP addresses that you have and consider your accusations as being wrong. In fact, I would think that you can even ban any postings coming from my IP address if the technical facilities of this form allow. I believe this to case on other forums. I suggest you look into it.
Scanner

PS.. will the owner of the original post please own up, or at the very least not make any more.

Author:  Guest [ Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:43 am ]
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Scanner

have you got a 17 year old son by anychance?

Author:  captain cab [ Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:41 am ]
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i very much doubt it Mr Guest

CC

Author:  Guest [ Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:00 am ]
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No..two daughters 2 and 5 .. any particular reason why?
Scanner

Author:  Guest [ Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:19 am ]
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Anonymous wrote:
No..two daughters 2 and 5 .. any particular reason why?
Scanner


well scanner 17 year olds have been known to use dads computers to the embarrasment of dad, aint they Gordon?

Author:  Guest [ Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:36 pm ]
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Oh yes... I remember that :wink:

Author:  Dusty Bin [ Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:57 am ]
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Anonymous wrote:
Dusty, why on earth did you not just delete the post in the first place. I would suggest that if you have any such postings in the future that you delete them straight away and not accuse me of making them.

I will continue to drop in and Scan for interesting topics and any news that may be available but hope that my name is not used again as the propargator of offending posts. You have got my full IP addess, as provided above, so you will see whenever I look in of indeed make postings.

I envisage that you will indeed compare the IP addresses that you have and consider your accusations as being wrong. In fact, I would think that you can even ban any postings coming from my IP address if the technical facilities of this form allow. I believe this to case on other forums. I suggest you look into it.
Scanner

PS.. will the owner of the original post please own up, or at the very least not make any more.


The reason I didn't delete the post is because as you know this has caused a lot of problems in the past. The post itself wasn't really that objectionable, it was just the fact that the evidence strongly pointed towards the author being the same person as the post which you agreed emanated from your computer.

The IP was one element of the evidence, I can't tell you the other things, but suffice to say that the IP was the same as that that the username 'scanner' made 94 posts from. Of course that's not conclusive proof that it was you, but then again I didn't say it was you!

The other reason I didn't delete it was because I'm not actually the moderator - Alex is - but we both need access to the administration controls in the forum, so the software shows us registered as administrator - I really am an administrator only(!) but Alex is also the moderator, but the software gives administrators moderator's powers as well - there are no moderators actually registered on the forum, as you may have noticed - their names appear in green when they are online.

Yes, IP addresses can be banned Mr Scanner, but again the policy has been towards not banning anyone, and the offending post in no way merited a ban.

Anyway, the IP process is not an exact science, what with rolling IP addresses as you'll know as a bit of a web buff.

Anyway, the topic is closed as far as I'm concerned.

Dusty

Author:  Dusty Bin [ Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Call this a forum????????????

Anonymous wrote:
98 registered users... and about 6 contributers... mostly from admin!!!! What a great forum!!! Has the admin set this forum up for their
own benefit!!! Incestuous is the correct word here!!!! And totally biased.


Anyway, to whoever made the post, there are a lot more than 6 contributors, but some certainly post more than others!

It's not for the admin's benefit only, because anyone can post on it, if they choose not to then that's fine, but it's there if they want to.

But most people view the posts rather than post - because you don't have to register to view the posts a lot of people don't register - if we required registration then I'm sure we would have a few hundred members.

Some of the other forums have had several hundred members (I think one had nearly a thousand) but no more posters than this one, and not much more looking in than posting either.

Dusty

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