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| Thread ID: 31491 | 2003-03-23 12:58:00 | Banned off a Public Forum | Pollly (1416) | Press F1 |
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| 130379 | 2003-03-23 12:58:00 | I have a question for you guys . My friend has been banned from a public forum . She can’t post on it anymore because she gets the message ‘You or someone from your network has been banned from posting messages to this board . ’ She admits she got a bit frisky a week or so ago and posted a couple of funny comments which apparently irritated some of the other regulars . She was not using her usual name, and in fact used a different name for each posting because unlike PressF1 there was no registering required . Neither of us can understand how the Forum is able to trace back to her computer and we were wondering if there was anything she could do to circumnavigate the ban or have it lifted . The US based forum is one about chinese pugs and seeing as we both own one, she is now quite p****d off at not being able to post questions there anymore . Any suggestions? Also, how do they actually trace messages sent under different names? She has dial up so her IP address is not the same every time she logs on is it so how can they tell it's her? She can't post any messages under any name at all anymore . A confused Pollly ?:| |
Pollly (1416) | ||
| 130380 | 2003-03-23 18:25:00 | Hi Polly, I may be wrong here, But I have a feeling that besides knowing your IP that some of these forum operators are able to also detect the username that you use to login to your ISP . A friend had an identical problem not being able to get into a forum(not chinese pug forums) & in the end got into the forum again by using my dial-up account. When he tried his own dial-up it was no go again. Perhaps someone can shed some more light on this problem? Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 130381 | 2003-03-23 19:30:00 | Cookies? | Danger (287) | ||
| 130382 | 2003-03-23 20:05:00 | wouldn't the cookies off the same computer using the same ISP just a different dial-up login name be the same? Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 130383 | 2003-03-23 20:50:00 | What I have done if I wish to print a web page that has advertisements down each side and I think I might loose a cartridge of ink (priced like gold) over the advertisements is copy (ctrl-a then ctrl-c) from web page and paste (ctrl-v) into a HTML composer (you get a free one with Netscpe), then click on to the advertisements then press the delete key. save the HTML page on desk top and open with normal browser to print the page, | E.ric (351) | ||
| 130384 | 2003-03-23 20:53:00 | > What I have done, You will never guess this posted a reply to the wrong thread, OK going away |
E.ric (351) | ||
| 130385 | 2003-03-24 03:55:00 | LMAO...this forum really needs delete/edit post functions... | promethius (1998) | ||
| 130386 | 2003-03-24 04:08:00 | > LMAO...this forum really needs delete/edit post functions... We do have a preview/edit function, its just that most people, including myself are often too lazy to use it. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 130387 | 2003-03-24 04:15:00 | "a bit frisky", "a couple of funny comments which apparently irritated some of the other regulars" . ;-) "Funny comments" when seen by non-frisky people, sometimes appear to be offensive or personally abusive to other members of the forum . Such comments don't make for happy campers . If the administrator of a forum agrees with a complaint, especially the perpetrator has used a "different name" each time (showing an intention to be "anonymous"), a person can easily be banned from the forum . When you post to a forum, there is an entry made in a log . It will contain your IP address . When you read the forum, even without logging in, your IP address is logged . The server has to have your IP address to be able to send you the forum pages . If there is exception taken to something you have posted, it's easy enough to check the logs . Your friend might wish to have a serious think about what the comments were, and how other people might interpret them, and consider an apology . There's no "right" to access to a "public forum" . Whoever runs it has the right to refuse access to anyone who abuses it . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 130388 | 2003-03-24 04:31:00 | Just email the webmaster and ask for an explanation . Webmasters tend to look favourably on people who approach them openly, and where appropriate, apologise . They tend to react negatively to people who attempt to circumvent a ban by dubious means . Trust me on this . . . . | Biggles (121) | ||
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