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2 June, 2003: Amendment to House Rules
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 2, 2003
Indeed. 
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Rho Posted Jun 2, 2003
A necessary addition. 
Is it a good idea to give the h2g2 Feedback's email address if a non-working address is specified in the Preferences? It seems quite possible to me that a person willing to sign up an account solely to spam a site wouldn't hesitate to flood an inbox with spam emails. 
RhoMuNuQ
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Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Jun 2, 2003
If the researcher is newly set up to do this, will they have stuff on their personal space to enable this you to post? Or is this a hithertoo hidden power the italics have anyway?
Hath 
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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Jun 3, 2003
The italics have always had the power in these cases to create a blank personal space for the person so that a message can be left. IIRC, it's mentioned in the <./>HouseRules</.>.
spelugx -- <./>guru</.>
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Jun 3, 2003
I'm shocked at the neccesity, but if the spammers want war, they can have it!!
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SEF Posted Jun 3, 2003
No! We don't want a war. Not if by that you mean spamming them in return. What we want is a peace-keeping action, which this proposal seems to be, whereby someone puts up the force-shield so the spammer's missiles simply impact on the surface. The remaining problem is how to alert the people holding the force-shield button quickly and be sure they will respond quickly.
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Mina Posted Jun 3, 2003
We can't force their Personal Space open, but we can create a blank entry in their 'name', and we'll post there. I haven't seen this create a Posting in their message centre, but only post to the new entry. If Researchers make it difficult or impossible for us to contact them, there's nothing we can do about it. We'll contact them where possible.
If it happens out of office hours and none of the Editors are online, then use the complaints button and ask that the spamming/flooding escalation procedure is activated. The Moderators can alert their supervisors, who will alert us to the problem.
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Jun 3, 2003
War for peace is still war.
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Mu Beta Posted Jun 3, 2003
I'm actually less offended by electronic spam than I am by the so-called-meat-product.
B
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Jun 3, 2003
It's easier to avoid the meat product!
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Mu Beta Posted Jun 3, 2003
Can we ban the meat-product from the meet-ups?
B
2 June, 2003: Amendment to House Rules
Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Jun 3, 2003
Depends how many people actually "like" the stuff.
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GreyDesk Posted Jun 3, 2003
Mmmm... Spam
Especially deep fried as fritters 
2 June, 2003: Amendment to House Rules
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 3, 2003
Do SPAMmers have "meat-ups"? 
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Jun 3, 2003
2 June, 2003: Amendment to House Rules
Loup Dargent Posted Jun 3, 2003
"Delayed reply due to having made the mistake of agreeing to be one of the H2G2 Big Sister contestants [
]..."
Great news!!!!!..
Glad that something has been done to stop as quickly as humanly possible any future intensive spamming...
Certainly better and more efficient than spamming them back [especially if they only open an account for their unsocial activities (
) as they would not _really_ care about seeing their space being spammed anyway...]
Talk soon...
loup
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2 June, 2003: Amendment to House Rules
- 21: rangerjustice (formerly warrior ranger) (Jun 2, 2003)
- 22: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 2, 2003)
- 23: Ormondroyd (Jun 2, 2003)
- 24: Rho (Jun 2, 2003)
- 25: Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit (Jun 2, 2003)
- 26: Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged (Jun 3, 2003)
- 27: Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs (Jun 3, 2003)
- 28: SEF (Jun 3, 2003)
- 29: Mina (Jun 3, 2003)
- 30: Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs (Jun 3, 2003)
- 31: Mu Beta (Jun 3, 2003)
- 32: Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs (Jun 3, 2003)
- 33: Mu Beta (Jun 3, 2003)
- 34: Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs (Jun 3, 2003)
- 35: GreyDesk (Jun 3, 2003)
- 36: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 3, 2003)
- 37: Mu Beta (Jun 3, 2003)
- 38: Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs (Jun 3, 2003)
- 39: Loup Dargent (Jun 3, 2003)
- 40: rangerjustice (formerly warrior ranger) (Jun 3, 2003)
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