Anyway, welcome!
GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
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Rowanberry
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Primula Baggins wrote:Serious, serious welcome to Legolas the elf!
How wonderful to have (a) a real person and (b) you as our 200th member!
Er...Legolas is an Elf, not a real person.
Welcom Legolas the Elf, may you have lofty high elf dreams.
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.
Loving living in the Pacific Northwest.
Loving living in the Pacific Northwest.
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Primula Baggins
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I merely meant that it's nice to welcome someone I know is a real person, even if he's also an Elf.
I mean, I'm a hobbit, and yet I seem quite real to myself, if not necessarily to anyone else.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Primula Baggins
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Not any more, Crucifer—there's scanning software that can defeat most of those. We do have one, and also an "Are you human?" question that's surprisingly effective against bots, I understand.
But in a lot of cases these are people being paid to spend their time registering on boards, and in that case nothing we can add will keep them out.
What we're hoping to do is add a software mod that makes people's profiles and our memberlist unreadable by nonmembers and Googlebots. Then the spammers will have no reason to register here.
But in a lot of cases these are people being paid to spend their time registering on boards, and in that case nothing we can add will keep them out.
What we're hoping to do is add a software mod that makes people's profiles and our memberlist unreadable by nonmembers and Googlebots. Then the spammers will have no reason to register here.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
I’m probably unleashing some unholy jinx here, so I am going to knock on wood the entire time I’m typing this, but it’s kind of odd that b77 hasn’t been getting very many of these spambot registrations. I deleted one about a week ago, but as far as I know that’s all we’ve had in the last year. HoF seems to have a new one every time I log on here.
Strange.
Strange.
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Primula Baggins
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tinwë, all I can figure out is that we got onto a list somehow, and b77 <knock wood> isn't on it yet.
Do you guys have the registration mods that give you an image of words you have to type into a box and also ask the "Are you a human" question? Apparently these both still do keep out some bots and are worth having. And if we're able to get the mod I was just talking about, you guys should look into it, too. It sounds as if it works.
Here's a link Mr. Prim found (he admins our little church message board and has been besieged by these things). It's a topic on a phpBB messageboard. The first post is really long but is packed with useful information about fighting spambots.
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 1&t=427852
Do you guys have the registration mods that give you an image of words you have to type into a box and also ask the "Are you a human" question? Apparently these both still do keep out some bots and are worth having. And if we're able to get the mod I was just talking about, you guys should look into it, too. It sounds as if it works.
Here's a link Mr. Prim found (he admins our little church message board and has been besieged by these things). It's a topic on a phpBB messageboard. The first post is really long but is packed with useful information about fighting spambots.
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 1&t=427852
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Primula Baggins
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Well, as long as whoever's Rangering then knows that the mods are available, that works.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Primula Baggins
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Welcome, Ophelia, to the Hall of Fire!
Make yourself at home. We hope you'll like it here!
Make yourself at home. We hope you'll like it here!
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
