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Hi all,

The Volkswebbin site has been moved to a new location: http://www.volkswebbin.net

Your old bookmarks to the old site should still keep working, but it wouldn't hurt to update them to the new location.

Your same username and password should work on this site as before.

Let me know if you have any issues!

Darren.

Hi all,

In the constant battle betwen good (you guys) and evil (spammers) I'm trying a new technique.

I've disabled Akismet (the spam blocking software) because while it mostly worked, it often took out people posting links.  For some reason it also started taking a long time to post messages.

Now, I've changed the register page to require you to fill out a "Captcha" -- basically you have to type in some garbled text that is difficult for computers to read, but (supposedly) relatively easy for humans.  The bad news is it's a bit of a pain, but the good news is you only have to do it once, and once you've registered you don't need to worry about it.

You can read more about Recaptcha here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

The other good news is that posting new messages is a lot faster now.

We'll see how this works.  The downside is that if a spammer takes the time to register by hand, nothing is stopping them from posting crap, however, it seems that most of the spammers are just automated bots so hopefully this will help.

Have fun,

Darren.

Due to the level of spam on the site, I have implemented a tool called "Akismet" that tries to identify if your message is spam.  Spammers will have their message held in quarantine and will not be able to post any further.

Unfortunately, there is a fairly high level of "false positives", where the system flags a valid message as spam and locks regular users out of the site. 

If this happens to you, simply send an email to the address indicated and I will un-ban your account.  I wish we didn't have to do this, but the levels of spam we're seeing are driving some long-timers away from the site and I don't want that to happen.

Thanks for your understanding,

Darren.

In order to cut down on the spam, you must now be a registered user before you can post to the site.

To register, click the "Register" link at the top of the page.

Thanks,

Darren.

Hi all,

As you might have noticed, I've added ads to the top of the Volkswebbin forum.  Hopefully this doesn't turn you off -- my main goal here is to bring in a few dollars to help keep the site going.

I'll probably play around with the format, and might try moving the ad bar to the right hand column rather than the top.  Let me know what you think.

Darren.