New Forum Permissions

ray · Post by **ray** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:38 pm

For those who get kind of sketched about "big brother" (Charmane, Forest Service, etc) I've now set the following forums to be viewable by only registered users:

Whatever
Climbing Community
Flame Forum

Post by **Gretchen** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:56 pm

That's great Ray, THANKS!!!!

Post by **Eric** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:21 pm

silly question, but what keeps one of "them" from becoming a registered user?

Oh I know, some sort of screening question for all new users- like "Is Ho really gay?" or maybe a question like "are you employed by Charmane Oil?"

Post by **Meadows** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:32 pm

Haha! You said it for me, Eric!

Post by **andy_lemon** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:57 pm

Nothing will keep them from logging on... but once they sign in Ray will give them one of his tasty cookies and their activities can be tracked.

Post by **overhung** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:05 pm

How come I never got a cookie? All I ever get is a hard time.

Post by **andy_lemon** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:06 pm

You've got a cookie unless you threw up a judo block... the judo block can only be thrown up from the control panel under security or privacy, I forget which one.

Post by **SCIN** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:20 pm

Nothing keeps "them" from registering. But I have doubts that those yahoos would know how to use one of dem 'puters to that extent.

Post by **andy_lemon** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:26 pm

and the cookie monster speaks...

Post by **Alan Evil** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:37 pm

I usually keep my privacy thingy set to block all cookies unless I'm visiting a site that requires them like this one or banking and the like. I've found that spyware gets loaded even from sites like the NYTimes and the Washington Post. It's usually loaded from an ad window on those sites.

If you're not familiar with spyware, you should download spybot or adaware from www.downloads.com and run it. I'll bet money you'll find at least 40 bits of spyware (cookies that record everything you do and then transmit it somewhere). And if you've ever looked at any porn sites (not like anyone that's a member of this site would) you've probably got some fairly malicious spybots in your cookie jar.