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Posted: April 27 2008,03:28

The font changed. It must have been something cached in my browser/xfs, because it's changed back again.
Oh well.

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Posted: April 28 2008,22:33

A few days ago (a week?) someone PM'd me about a thing. You know who you are. But I misplaced your PM. Could you ask me again?

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Posted: May 05 2008,18:14

If one of our Photoshop gurus would care to collaborate on a T-shirt design I'm thinking of for my Cafepress site, please PM me.

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Posted: May 09 2008,22:44

Two new redirects added for the site:

Bathroom Wall as "antievolution.org/bw"

AtBC as "antievolution.org/atbc"

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Posted: May 10 2008,06:38

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ May 09 2008,23:44)

Two new redirects added for the site:

Bathroom Wall as "antievolution.org/bw"

AtBC as "antievolution.org/atbc"

I'm thinking there should be a few more.

The UD thread:

antievolution.org/tardcentral
antievolution.org/drdrandgrannyspice
antievolution.org/icanhazstoopid
antievolution.org/sadbuttrue
antievolution.org/ixnayontheesusjay
antievolution.org/fartyjokesareus
antievolution.org/urdoinitrong

The BlogCzar Years thread:

antievolution.org/nixplanatoryfilter
antievolution.org/igottheaxe
antievolution.org/udrip
antievolution.org/boneyard
antievolution.org/gonebutnotforgotten

The Explore Evolution thread:

antievolution.org/paulnelsonsightings
antievolution.org/paulducksquestions
antievolution.org/drivebyequivocations
antievolution.org/writethebookthendotheresearch
antievolution.org/drhurdcheckshismailbox

The Expelled Thread:

antievolution.org/pos
antievolution.org/propaganda
antievolution.org/darwinandhitlerandnazisohmy
antievolution.org/bensteinisanidiot
antievolution.org/waitingtoexpel

The Young Cosmos thread:

antievolution.org/lying4jesus
antievolution.org/quoteminecentral
antievolution.org/disgustingpieceofdonkeyspooge

The Unreasonable Kansans thread:

antievolution.org/denyingrealitysince1962
antievolution.org/nuhuh
antievolution.org/stopbeingmeantome

Zero's thread:

antievolution.org/wtf

The Florida thread:

antievolution.org/pleasesecede
antievolution.org/canwejustcutyouoff
antievolution.org/floridadoomed

The Libations and Comestibles thread:

antievolution.org/fatdrunkchanceworshippers

This thread:

antievolution.org/heywesleyitsbroke

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Posted: May 15 2008,13:02

Following up on JonF's comment in the UD thread, this morning (5/15) when I looked in, the list of topics page showed 940 pages for the thread. I read 939, clicked on 940, and on 940 there were no posts showing. I've never seen that before. That may have been in the midst of the copying and moving of the space travel posts to the new thread and the BW. FYI/YMMV, etc.

ETA: I read page 939 this morning, not all 939.

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Posted: May 20 2008,21:48

We (and by "we" I mean "you") might want to start thinking about a captcha thingy for registrations...

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51 guests, 17 Public Members and 0 Anonymous Members [ View Complete List ]
>Doc Bill >Lou FCD >snoeman >Dr.GH >hereoisreal >EyeNoU >Occam's Aftershave >olegt >Reciprocating Bill >deejay >xxxlYouenhanced >swwatch_swwatchs >Texas Teach >jerkazoid >charlie d >sparc >Fkrgpkry

I mean, "Reciprocating Bill"? C'mon, you know that's gotta be smut spam. (also maybe that "xxxlYouenhanced", but that's a little less clear - we might want to hear what he has to say first)

Edited by Lou FCD on May 20 2008,22:51

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Posted: May 20 2008,23:23

"Jerkazoid" has got to be a misspelling of "Louis"....

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Posted: May 24 2008,03:44

"DavidMabus*" is no more welcome to spam my sites than he is to spam my email. The "DavidMabus2006" login has been changed to "Pariah" group membership. If he abuses the PM system, let me know and I will bust him down to "Guest".

Fanatic -- someone who won't change their mind and won't change the subject.

Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on May 24 2008,03:46

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Posted: May 24 2008,17:21

Quote (Lou FCD @ May 20 2008,22:48)

We (and by "we" I mean "you") might want to start thinking about a captcha thingy for registrations...

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51 guests, 17 Public Members and 0 Anonymous Members � [ View Complete List ]
>Doc Bill >Lou FCD >snoeman >Dr.GH >hereoisreal >EyeNoU >Occam's Aftershave >olegt >Reciprocating Bill >deejay >xxxlYouenhanced >swwatch_swwatchs >Texas Teach >jerkazoid >charlie d >sparc >Fkrgpkry

I mean, "Reciprocating Bill"? �C'mon, you know that's gotta be smut spam. �(also maybe that "xxxlYouenhanced", but that's a little less clear - we might want to hear what he has to say first)

Strictly a mechanical allusion. Nothing sexual. Like the reciprocating Stirling engine:

(ETA: No shit, that's the Wiki illustration of a Stirling engine.)

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Posted: May 25 2008,03:30

Still a problem with new posts showing up on the UD thread. A post I entered disappeared into the ether, and the topic list showed Rich had posted something but I tried posting after him to see what happened and there's no trace of his post. (Please feel free to delete my test post). The old workaround of adding 30 to the page count no longer seems to work.

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Posted: June 28 2008,15:56

I feel a bit of a n00b for asking this but... how does search work here? (I normally search for answers before asking on boards but in this case, uh...)

I ask because I recently came across
this prime bit of grade-A wallaby cortex and thought I'd better check to see whether the author ("Rana's work has been published in peer-review journals and he has made presentations at scientific meetings showing that good science garners the respect of the scientific community, even when it supports creation.") has been mentioned here before.

So I searched. All I get back is the thread in which the author appears and not the message itself, which as it's the nigh-on 1000 page Uncommonly Dense epic is, uh....

What am I missing? How do I find the message with the search hit in it, rather than the entire thread?

Rupert (currently enjoying a rather fine saffron gin - but that's not important right now)

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Posted: June 28 2008,20:14

Unfortunately, the default search function in ikonBoard doesn't yield anything more specific than a thread in which the search terms appear.

I saw a hack once, but it looked like it was pretty complex.

Despite the hacks I've applied to this version of iB, it may be worth considering shifting the board to a newer software package. There have been continuing problems with a small proportion of people being unable to register and get access. So I am open to suggestions for new bulletin board software. The basic requirements I have are:

- Open source and free code.
- Runs under FreeBSD.
- Hackable for extending functionality.
- Flexible permissions capability.
- Ability to specify public and private fora.
- Good tools for moderators.

Nice features to have out of the box:

- RSS feed for new comments in public fora.
- Ability to redirect comments to other threads by admins.
- Spam reduction by CAPTCHA.
- Search function that returns links to individual comments.

I can run the scripts to convert all the posts in the iB databases so that all that has transpired can be accessible by static HTML files.

If I can find a good alternative software package, then changing over to that is something that can be considered. At the moment, though, I don't really have the time to be looking at a bunch of candidate packages. So if anyone or a group would care to look into that and reporting back here, it would be appreciated.

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Posted: June 28 2008,20:21

For the present time, though, use Google to search and include "site:antievolution.org" with your search terms. Stuff with "aebb-archive" will be pages from the bulletin board.

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Posted: June 28 2008,22:14

Quote (RupertG @ June 28 2008,16:56)

I feel a bit of a n00b for asking this but... how does search work here?

Poorly!

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Posted: June 28 2008,22:15

I've no idea if the package used by http://www.xprodigy.net/board/ and http://www.trucker2000.net/forum/ meets those specs or not, but it seems to work pretty well for those two BB's.

Henry

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Posted: July 06 2008,20:02

I get this message when I click on certain parts of
Telic Thoughts Thread

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http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?act=SC;c=5

403 - Forbidden

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Posted: July 06 2008,22:29

Are you simultaneously hitting the PT server? 403s come up because the HTTPD server is set to deny multiple simultaneous browser requests from the same IP address.

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Posted: July 06 2008,23:05

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87 user(s) active in the past 15 minutes
68 guests, 19 Public Members and 0 Anonymous Members [ View Complete List ]
>stevestory >Arden Chatfield >Guts >Richardthughes >EyeNoU >Lou FCD >AnalJar >Krubozumo Nyankoye >JAM >Dr.GH >Freelurker >Rettydiesse60 >Inhasseboon >Zarquon >Reed >medsinsurance >Texas Teach >Jasonstawnos >SergioRamas

For Monday morning at midnight that's pretty impressive.

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Posted: July 07 2008,14:05

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403s come up because the HTTPD server is set to deny multiple simultaneous browser requests from the same IP address.

Ah so. That would explain why I get 403's sporadically when trying to load all the recent threads in separate tabs at the same time.

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Posted: July 07 2008,16:03

Yes. I load a set of tabs that all hit the same server, and I end up having to hit refresh on most of them because of the lockout of simultaneous requests. As with many things, that became necessary because of spammers overloading the comment submission systems on the various sites. By requiring such requests to be spaced apart in time, it cuts down on the server load quite a bit.

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Posted: July 07 2008,20:47

I've also encountered 403s while rapidly paging back through a single thread one page at a time.

I find myself locked out for a few minutes.

(Getting to a deeply buried post more rapidly by changing the message number in the URL appears to break the permalink mechanism - so if I want a permalink I've got to page through the thread)

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Posted: July 07 2008,21:42

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(Getting to a deeply buried post more rapidly by changing the message number in the URL appears to break the permalink mechanism - so if I want a permalink I've got to page through the thread)

If you haven't been making sure you put a multiple of 30 for the message number, try doing that (i.e., starting from a mid-page position might confuse the software).

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Posted: July 07 2008,21:54

Quote (Henry J @ July 07 2008,22:42)

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(Getting to a deeply buried post more rapidly by changing the message number in the URL appears to break the permalink mechanism - so if I want a permalink I've got to page through the thread)

If you haven't been making sure you put a multiple of 30 for the message number, try doing that (i.e., starting from a mid-page position might confuse the software).

Henry

That seems to be the case. Thanks.

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Posted: July 10 2008,15:05

Teh_witch is Teh_moderatrx?

Black magics, I tells ye!

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Posted: July 10 2008,16:08

My Bathroom Wall function seems to not work. Sad that I tried using it so quickly!

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Posted: July 10 2008,16:22

Quote (Kristine @ July 10 2008,16:08)

My Bathroom Wall function seems to not work. Sad that I tried using it so quickly!

Just put a hex on her instead!

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Posted: July 10 2008,16:26

Quote (Richardthughes @ July 10 2008,16:22)

Quote (Kristine @ July 10 2008,16:08)

My Bathroom Wall function seems to not work. Sad that I tried using it so quickly!

Just put a hex on her instead!

Love to.

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Posted: July 10 2008,16:53

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Edited by Dr.GH on July 09 2008,22:47

Is Gary a moderator here now? Or is there a way for all of us to do the edit stamp?

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