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kathryn delanuit // User Search
kathryn delanuit // User Search
Jun 29, 2004, 2:15am
yeppers, that's what I've noticed as well...guess we have to figure out
the coords off the map to teleport now? hehe
[View Quote]ferruccio wrote:
> Some of the pictures at level 1 or 2 don't show up, and the teleport window
> never comes up. Is anyone else having the same problem?
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Jul 12, 2004, 4:46am
I have a question...WHY are you opening spam mail, and WHY do you do it
with html turned on??? You know that when you do that it d/l's stuff so
they are able to log your IP on their servers, when the email is opened,
and it confirms that your email is an active email account. Confirmed
active email addy's sell for alot more which means that your addy will
be sold more and you'll be getting LOTS more spam after that. And not
only that, spammers are way sleazy and HAVE been known to stoop to using
trojans to take control of puters and use it to spam others, which they
will have alot easier job doing now that you so graciously provided them
your IP addy when you opened their email.
Sorry, I know this wasn't the point of your thread, it just bugs me tho,
so many complain about being spammed to death, but then they go and do
stupid stuff like opening spam with html on, or forward chain letters,
or give their real addy and all real info to any stupid site that
demands that info etc, then wonder *why* are they getting spammed so
much lol.
[View Quote]strike rapier wrote:
> Why does all spam email selling 'pills' always have a pink background?
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Jul 13, 2004, 4:19am
> erm... how else can you do anything BUT give your real address at some point
> if you actually want to recieve legit mail... uh...
What I do is have junk addy's that I use to give to sites that do need a
legit addy, for like a confirmation email or whatever. I just open some
yahoo account just for that purpose, they can spam the junk addy all
they want. I don't ever read stuff there....and I'm very careful about
who I give the real addy out to. It does work....I get no spam at all
in my real addy, just real email.
Jul 13, 2004, 6:09am
Which email provider you choose to use is very important. As far as the
dictionary attacks, they are mainly aimed at hotmail. Hotmail is the
most targeted email there is. They are the number one target for
dictionary attacks, account hacking, hijacking, etc. In the brief time
that I did use hotmail way back when, that account was the target of
dictionary attacks and hijacking and all kinds of crap. But, I have
been using yahoo for years, and have never once had a dictionary attack
or anything on any of my yahoo addy's. I strongly dislike ALOT of what
yahoo has done in recent years, but at least with my accounts there I
haven't had any problem with spam or attacks. I hate that yahoo has all
the default settings set to "please send me lots of crap", and you have
to go through and change all those settings to "no thanks, keep your
freaking crap to yourself" when you set up a new account, otherwise you
will be getting alot of crap from them, 3rd parties, etc. But once I've
set that on the account I haven't gotten any spam at all. I have alot
of yahoo accounts that I've had for years that I just use for the free
webspace that you get with the account, and none of those addy's have
ever recieved anything...five years and not a single thing yet. ;)
[View Quote]builderz wrote:
> Even if you are careful about who you give your real address to,
> spammers can use automated dictionary attacks to eventually find (spam)
> your real address. Also, depending upon the privacy policy of your
> e-mail provider, they may share/sell your address with third parties
> (other companies).
>
> Builderz
> http://www.3DHost.net
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> kathryn delanuit wrote:
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May 13, 2005, 12:20pm
Why do you use the word "sweet" in your name? I'm just curious :)
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> Elyk............two words....first one begins with F....second is You
> have a nice day
> sweets
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May 7, 2005, 6:17am
GLOBAL pk bots? And you say you're an advocate of free speech and don't
like pk's messing with you?? :p Do you even realize what a can of worms
you're trying to open up by giving them more rights in AW? So you're
wanting pk's to have global bots monitoring and listening in to all our
chat and logging private conversations way out in the middle of nowhere
in AW? That is exactly what they will have the ability to do if you
give them global bot rights. You're just giving them more power and
more ways to mess with us that way (not that they have CT rights to be
able to log a bot in global), but if they did they'll be listening in on
your private chats and coming around to your builds to screw with you
every time they hear something they don't like. Or find some way to use
the logs to mess with you. (You really trust them that they'll only use
it to listen for "watch words"?) It's just an invasion of privacy.
They should not have that power and it's too easy to be abused. And
probably part of why PK's do not have CT or ED rights. Some day you
could be out in the middle of nowhere talking to your friend in a
private conversation and happen to say something about someone who's a
pk or a friend of a pk, then afterwards you'll be wondering why it is
that every time you come to AW you're ejected for some mysterious reason
lol. How's that for free speech. E N Z O and the very few others in AW
who have CT can use global spy bots and do whatever they want, but
that's really not a power we want to be giving the pk's ;)
[View Quote]goober king wrote:
> For those of you who don't spend any time at GZ, this probably doesn't
> affect you, but humor me for a while:
>
> For those of you who don't know me, my name is Goober King, and I hate
> PeaceKeepers (PKs). If they were to all jump into a huge terrain hole
> and never be seen again, I would be the happiest man on the planet. I
> have hated them since the day Razzle conceived the idea all those years
> ago. I have always seen them as a threat to individual free speech and
> the community as a whole, and they have never ceased in proving me right.
>
> Just the latest example: A tourist with an Aussie accent a mile wide
> wanders into GZ and starts asking questions, which I happily answer for
> him. I even regale him with the benefits of being a citizen, being a
> good AW doobie, and have him nearly convinced to register. Suddenly, out
> of nowhere, the PK on duty starts whispering to him, repeatedly
> reminding him about guidelines, claiming he had broken them and was
> being disruptive. After the tourist asked numerous times exactly what
> rule he had broken and not getting a satisfactory answer, the tourist
> promptly exclaimed that he doesn't want to register in a place that "is
> so anal" and disappears, effectively robbing AWI of another potential
> customer. And what was his supposedly disruptive act, you may ask?
> Naming himself "Ted Bundy".
>
> Now, having said all that, I can understand why Razzle organized them in
> the first place. There needs to be some semblance of authority in a
> place such as this, otherwise you wind up with anarchy, which I'm sure
> AWI has no desire of seeing in its public worlds. However, there is a
> fine line between maintaining order and creating disorder, and some
> PeaceKeepers, through their vast incompetence, have shown that they have
> no qualms with crossing that line whatsoever.
>
> So how are we to solve this problem? Some say that if you don't like it,
> go somewhere else. Unfortunately, AW folks are creatures of habit, and
> telling them to vacate a place they've idled in for years just because
> some hotshot with bolds is causing a ruckus doesn't tend to sit well
> with them. As a DJ for AWRadio, I must go where the people are, and as a
> result of these tendencies, that place is, and always will be, GZ.
>
> Instead, I have a modest proposal for the PK brass. Since getting rid of
> the PK organization as a whole is out of the question, as well as
> keeping things the way they are, some middle ground must be found. That
> middle ground can be found in the form of the PK bot.
>
> For those who may not be aware, when a PK goes on duty, they bring a bot
> along with them to record chat and perform various other security
> functions. My proposal involves changing a feature of this bot that will
> not only make the PKs lives easier, but also for the rest of us who have
> to put up with them.
>
> Currently, the bot has a feature that notifies a PK whenever a watchword
> is said in chat, such as "hacking". I propose changing this feature so
> that it only searches for one phrase, such as "PK Help". When someone
> says this phrase, or whispers it to the bot, the bot application running
> on the PK's local machine will fire off an alert message that will pop
> up in the PK's face, showing who said the magic words and where they are
> located. This allows the PK to then teleport to the location in question
> and settle whatever dispute the person may have. It could even
> theoretically be expanded to global status, so that if someone says it
> anywhere in the world, the PK could come to the rescue.
>
> This feature provides several obvious benefits. First, it allows the PK
> free reign to do whatever they want without wasting time idling in GZ. I
> can't tell you how many times I've seen things happen at GZ that should
> require a PK's attention, only to discover he/she was idling because
> they were web surfing or watching TV. Secondly, it gives the rest of us
> a reprieve from the more conservative PKs oppressive interpretations of
> the guidelines, and allows us to converse in peace. Thirdly, it allows
> for self-policing. One thing that some PKs can't seem to understand is
> that most of us are big boys and girls and can take care of ourselves
> with Mute and Blocking Telegrams. This system will allow us to handle
> tamer situations ourselves, and reserving the PK's effort for more
> pressing circumstances. It's a win-win!
>
> So please, let me know what you think of this idea. I'll be sending it
> off to the PKs in about a week, so feel free to poke holes in it. I
> figure if there's enough support for it, I'll also send it off to AWI
> and see if they can do anything to help implement this idea.
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled newsgroup.
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May 7, 2005, 7:19am
It's really not necessary to monitor all the chat in the entire world
just to be able to get a PK's attention. That's what we have telegrams
for. And grams give more information to the pk instead of just the word
'help' so that they can decide which crisis to handle first in case they
are already occupied with a 'situation' at the time that they get the
call for help. We can ask that pk's turn on their audible gram
notification and maybe use a louder wav file for it that can alert them
better even if they are out of the room, or watching tv, or napping, or
whatever. That's all that would be needed to get a pk's attention. I
use a loud wav file instead of the default sound and I can hear it even
if I'm out of the room, you just need to rename a sound 'telegram.wav'
and drop it into the /default/sounds folder and then it will be used
each time you get a gram. :)
[View Quote]goober king wrote:
> For those of you who don't spend any time at GZ, this probably doesn't
> affect you, but humor me for a while:
>
> For those of you who don't know me, my name is Goober King, and I hate
> PeaceKeepers (PKs). If they were to all jump into a huge terrain hole
> and never be seen again, I would be the happiest man on the planet. I
> have hated them since the day Razzle conceived the idea all those years
> ago. I have always seen them as a threat to individual free speech and
> the community as a whole, and they have never ceased in proving me right.
>
> Just the latest example: A tourist with an Aussie accent a mile wide
> wanders into GZ and starts asking questions, which I happily answer for
> him. I even regale him with the benefits of being a citizen, being a
> good AW doobie, and have him nearly convinced to register. Suddenly, out
> of nowhere, the PK on duty starts whispering to him, repeatedly
> reminding him about guidelines, claiming he had broken them and was
> being disruptive. After the tourist asked numerous times exactly what
> rule he had broken and not getting a satisfactory answer, the tourist
> promptly exclaimed that he doesn't want to register in a place that "is
> so anal" and disappears, effectively robbing AWI of another potential
> customer. And what was his supposedly disruptive act, you may ask?
> Naming himself "Ted Bundy".
>
> Now, having said all that, I can understand why Razzle organized them in
> the first place. There needs to be some semblance of authority in a
> place such as this, otherwise you wind up with anarchy, which I'm sure
> AWI has no desire of seeing in its public worlds. However, there is a
> fine line between maintaining order and creating disorder, and some
> PeaceKeepers, through their vast incompetence, have shown that they have
> no qualms with crossing that line whatsoever.
>
> So how are we to solve this problem? Some say that if you don't like it,
> go somewhere else. Unfortunately, AW folks are creatures of habit, and
> telling them to vacate a place they've idled in for years just because
> some hotshot with bolds is causing a ruckus doesn't tend to sit well
> with them. As a DJ for AWRadio, I must go where the people are, and as a
> result of these tendencies, that place is, and always will be, GZ.
>
> Instead, I have a modest proposal for the PK brass. Since getting rid of
> the PK organization as a whole is out of the question, as well as
> keeping things the way they are, some middle ground must be found. That
> middle ground can be found in the form of the PK bot.
>
> For those who may not be aware, when a PK goes on duty, they bring a bot
> along with them to record chat and perform various other security
> functions. My proposal involves changing a feature of this bot that will
> not only make the PKs lives easier, but also for the rest of us who have
> to put up with them.
>
> Currently, the bot has a feature that notifies a PK whenever a watchword
> is said in chat, such as "hacking". I propose changing this feature so
> that it only searches for one phrase, such as "PK Help". When someone
> says this phrase, or whispers it to the bot, the bot application running
> on the PK's local machine will fire off an alert message that will pop
> up in the PK's face, showing who said the magic words and where they are
> located. This allows the PK to then teleport to the location in question
> and settle whatever dispute the person may have. It could even
> theoretically be expanded to global status, so that if someone says it
> anywhere in the world, the PK could come to the rescue.
>
> This feature provides several obvious benefits. First, it allows the PK
> free reign to do whatever they want without wasting time idling in GZ. I
> can't tell you how many times I've seen things happen at GZ that should
> require a PK's attention, only to discover he/she was idling because
> they were web surfing or watching TV. Secondly, it gives the rest of us
> a reprieve from the more conservative PKs oppressive interpretations of
> the guidelines, and allows us to converse in peace. Thirdly, it allows
> for self-policing. One thing that some PKs can't seem to understand is
> that most of us are big boys and girls and can take care of ourselves
> with Mute and Blocking Telegrams. This system will allow us to handle
> tamer situations ourselves, and reserving the PK's effort for more
> pressing circumstances. It's a win-win!
>
> So please, let me know what you think of this idea. I'll be sending it
> off to the PKs in about a week, so feel free to poke holes in it. I
> figure if there's enough support for it, I'll also send it off to AWI
> and see if they can do anything to help implement this idea.
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled newsgroup.
>
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May 8, 2005, 2:47am
I have seen the PKs bring xel's into gz. Xels are quite capable of
seeing and logging chat. If PKs gained the ability to log in global
there's nothing to stop them from using those privs to do the same thing
and logging their own xel's in as well as a 'pk bot'. Color is 100%
right in what she said. Very well said, Color. Doing this would be
completely unnecessary anyways, if someone needed a pk, they would gram
the PK, there is no need for PKs to go rushing around to places outside
of the monitored gz area when they were not asked to do so and no
complaint was made, just because a bot picked up a 'forbidden' word.
But anyways, it will never happen, a global bot would require CT rights,
and E N Z O has always very closely guarded who he gives lets have
access to those privs, only a couple people have that, and he's made it
clear that the PKs would not be getting those kinds of privs. Also,
Alphaworld's a bit big to be running a bot like that in trying to
monitor and censor *all* the chat in the entire world, nearly 43 billion
square meters, I don't think most pk's computers could handle that.
[View Quote]SW Chris wrote:
> It makes no sense because you misunderstand. That's okay. Here's how it
> works.
>
> The bot doesn't monitor any chat, nor does it record it or send it back to
> the PK. It only listens for the phrase "PK Help", and when it's said
> anywhere in, say, alphaworld, it notifies the PK who said it and where that
> person is currently located. The PK can then teleport there at his or her
> leisure. (it could optionally also telegram or notify the person who said
> the phrase that a pk will appear in the area shortly).
>
> The phrase should be hard-coded into the bot to prevent tampering by PKs who
> would perhaps like a bit more control.
>
>
> "CoLor" <mensa at execpc.com> wrote in message
> news:427D54E4.446652B4 at execpc.com...
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May 8, 2005, 1:13pm
I wasn't 'harping', I was responding to SW Chris' post, now you stop
harping on me and act nice :p
[View Quote]ORB wrote:
> Who said anything about the PK being in control of the bot .. it's not like
> that at all. Just as the bot at the Gate is not run by GK's. There is
> something useful by the bot placing the PK's online status on a sign at
> Alpha GZ. It will let people know that 'at this time the PK is available'.
> How many times have you gone to Alpha GZ and noticed that you hardly never
> know who the PK is on duty. I think too that way back in this thread we
> agreed that we don't want global chat bot for Alpha so stop harping on
> something that is in the past.
>
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May 8, 2005, 2:14pm
hehe, I'm always doing that, finding typos after I click send, even when
I proofread first, I wish there was some way to edit posts on ng's like
you can elsewhere :)
[View Quote]ORB wrote:
> lol I meant to say "hardly ever" not "hardly never". Harp's on self.
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May 9, 2005, 10:46am
awwwww... great post SW Chris, and that's very true, we all just want
what's best for AW, we may all have different views about what's the
best ways to go about it, but we really all just love the place and want
what's best for it, and yes, we should work together to reach solutions
or things than can help the place. I makes me a bit sad when I see how
much AW is in decline, but it's great to see that there are still people
around committed to helping AW and keeping it alive :)
[View Quote]SW Chris wrote:
> Please, let's not fight. We both want the best for Active Worlds, so let us
> all continue these discussions in a spirit of peace. Let us not take sides.
> Let us discuss this under the banner of users who want the best for AW.
>
> Now, to be honest, I think Goober's proposal is fair. And while I don't
> share his belief that the PKs should be disbanded outright, it is a noble
> gesture toward compromise, don't you think so? That doesn't mean of course
> that we can't fiddle around with the details, though, so the PKs don't feel
> constrained and the regular users have the freedom they want.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> "Kathryn Delanuit" <me at me.com> wrote in message
> news:427e2cea$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
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