Guest Bill

Subject: Guest Bill
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 10:30 AM

Seems like this person has managed to hijack some old threads here.

Has ther been a problem with logging onto Mudcat today becuase of it?

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 10:50 AM

This is the first time today that Mudcat has actually loaded up on my computer.
No idea what has been going on.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 10:58 AM

Well when I looked in posts since last visit, Guest Bill had posted may many times, so I assume he crashed the Cat.
Giok

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 11:40 AM

I did the same thing, and managed to count 141 posts called 'Microsoft' by GUEST, Bill, all posted between 1.54am and 1.59am. Soon after the 'cat came back, they were gone.

It seems pretty obvious that they shut it down for a while to deal with a spam attack.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 11:41 AM

three e-lists I am on got spammed by a "guest, William" or "William" yesterday.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 11:48 AM

Not Shatner!!!

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 12:22 PM

It's a Canuck Conspiracy!
G

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 12:34 PM

Billybob would never do such a thing, being a musio himself.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 12:44 PM

I'm submitting a Guest bill to Congress, banning internet-armed Guests.

Please vote for the Guest Bill when it comes up, eveyone.

~S~

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 01:57 PM

We should make sure Guest Bill gets his guest bill and pays it in full. Plus room service.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:00 PM

Time to stop guests with name as well now, me thinks.

Everybody should be a member and that will hopefully stop this crap.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 03:28 PM

I had a call from Mike Moore. He suspects an inside job this time. Most likely by someone whose agaenda it is to discredit guest posting and have the Café adopt member only posting.

Hmmmm... Villan... likely sounding name for a witch hunt. Where were you between 01:54h and 01:59h? And, can you support that?

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 04:33 PM

LOL Is that afternoon or early morning?

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 04:36 PM

gnu was itu :-)

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 05:25 AM

Well I dropped membership for reasons of my own, but posting as a guest, I'd be perfectly happy if guest posts were not automatically posted, but moderated before they appear. If this means a long delay (depending on willingness of moderators), so be it. That might mean that guests only post if they really need to.

Another alternatives is the scrambled characters box used by many open- posting forums and download pages- you know, the box that says "type the characters displayed" and shows half a dozen randomised letters and numbers, distorted so that they aren't machine readable.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 05:46 AM

And, sometimes, not readable me me either. I recently tried to submit an advertisement to an online "stuff for sale" site and gave up after a dozen failed attempts to type the characters displayed.

Now, given the fact that my ad DID appear, despite never getting the characters correct may mean it was set up that way... ???

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: Bee
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 06:27 AM

I have trouble interpreting some of those characters also - they get a little too artistic.

Subject: RE: Guest Bill
From: Rasener
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 06:49 AM

Sometimes it's hard to determine if they should be capital letters or not.
Things like the Capital I or lower case l or the number 1 get me.
I l 1