Me want LGF cookie!

I just jump up and down and yell "HEY CHARLES!"

And some decaf Java....

re: #2 zombie

I just jump up and down and yell "HEY CHARLES!"

My legs are too short. No vertical lift.

If you don't mind Charles, I'll continue to contact you via carrier pigeon.

BE SURE TO USE CAPS LOCK AND BOLD AND YOUR COMMENT WILL BE NOTICED

I know it makes the contact form a bit more difficult to use, but it’s unfortunately necessary because otherwise I’ll be inundated with spam.

That's my problem too. Way too much mail.

The difficulty is that half of it is spam, but the other half is real. Hard to disentangle.

Apologies to everyone who wrote to me in the last month -- I'm trying to catch up on responding to each email, but it's soooooo time-consuming! I just don't have enough hours in the day to answer (or even read) all my emails.

And I actually try to hide my address.

re: #5 Ringo the Gringo

If you don't mind Charles, I'll continue to contact you via carrier pigeon.

I just lean around the office divider and say, "So, Charles, which sockpuppet should we use today? And give me one of those green M&Ms!"

re: #4 coquimbojoe

My legs are too short. No vertical lift.

TWP can't jump.
/Rev. Wright.

re: #7 zombie

That's my problem too. Way too much mail.

The difficulty is that half of it is spam, but the other half is real. Hard to disentangle.

Apologies to everyone who wrote to me in the last month -- I'm trying to catch up on responding to each email, but it's soooooo time-consuming! I just don't have enough hours in the day to answer (or even read) all my emails.

And I actually try to hide my address.

You should turn on Spam Assassin in your account control panel, if you haven't already. And check out Spam Sieve; it works very well.

Lunch time.

re: #10 Charles

You should turn on Spam Assassin in your account control panel, if you haven't already. And check out Spam Sieve; it works very well.

I do have Spam Assassin on, but if I turn up the settings too high, I miss some real emails.

A lot of the spam is not the typical "viagra-Nigeria-3INCHES!" spam but targetted junk mail just for me -- jihadis while away their hours signing up my Mohammed email address for every sort of online club or Islamic newsletter or Muslim dating site, not to mention foreign-language spam lists that the American spam filters don't do too well with.

I call it "spam" but it's more like "harrassment mail."

I'm happy that zombie is back.

re: #13 DesertSage

I'm happy that zombie is back.

Hey Desert, peeps were wondering how the fires were affecting you.

re: #12 zombie
Is there any way you could forward a load of stuff to someone you trust to weed out the junk?

re: #12 zombie

I do have Spam Assassin on, but if I turn up the settings too high, I miss some real emails.

A lot of the spam is not the typical "viagra-Nigeria-3INCHES!" spam but targetted junk mail just for me -- jihadis while away their hours signing up my Mohammed email address for every sort of online club or Islamic newsletter or Muslim dating site, not to mention foreign-language spam lists that the American spam filters don't do too well with.

I call it "spam" but it's more like "harrassment mail."

Yes, I get an incredible amount of that kind of stuff too. The latest harassment tactic -- someone is going around to dozens of Yahoo groups and signing up my address for them, which triggers automated emails from Yahoo to confirm the signup.

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Hey Desert, peeps were wondering how the fires were affecting you.

It was scary for a while. They evacuated my neighbors a block away, but that's as close as it got to me. I'm OK. The worst has passed...for me anyway.

re: #13 DesertSage

I'm happy that zombie is back.

And I'm happy to be back -- though I never really went away! Just spent a couple days working exclusively on my Olympics report final version.

I got an error message couple of days ago too

re: #10 Charles

Spam Assassin?!

Well, I like the name a lot.

The last time I posted on this subject, by the way, someone suggested an alternative method of including a hidden input element in the form, removing it with Javascript, then rejecting the submission if that element was present.

Nope, doesn't work. When I tried it yesterday, I got spam within minutes.

re: #16 Charles

Yes, I get an incredible amount of that kind of stuff too. The latest harassment tactic I'm getting -- someone is going around to dozens of Yahoo groups and signing up my address for them, which triggers automated emails from Yahoo to confirm the signup.

Oh, yeah, I get that. Much more annoying are some Middle Eastern social networking sites that send a notification email every time someone comments on my profile -- a profile which someone else set up for me using my return address and over which I have no control. So then spambots leave spam-comments by the hundreds on my profile page on this or that Arabic chat site, and I get a notification email each time.

Multiply that by 25, 30, who knows how many chat sites. Turkish, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu , etc. -- man, it gets tedious! Their harrassment techniques are pretty effective!

re: #12 zombie

I do have Spam Assassin on, but if I turn up the settings too high, I miss some real emails.

A lot of the spam is not the typical "viagra-Nigeria-3INCHES!" spam but targetted junk mail just for me -- jihadis while away their hours signing up my Mohammed email address for every sort of online club or Islamic newsletter or Muslim dating site, not to mention foreign-language spam lists that the American spam filters don't do too well with.

I call it "spam" but it's more like "harrassment mail."

So....you see anyone nice you'd like to date in any of those?

OT but too good not to post.

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
The court vote 6-3 to uphold Indiana's strict photo ID requirement. Democrats and civil rights groups say the law would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.

re: #24 Da_Beerfreak

That's bad news for dead people in Chicago and illegal immigrants.

re: #23 coquimbojoe

So....you see anyone nice you'd like to date in any of those?

Well, pot-bellied Achmed from Yemen was tempting, but would I really want to be third wife behind a camel and a kidnapped human shield?

re: #16 Charles

Oh, good grief.

Thanks for the reminder to keep you quite current on my list to talk about you to....um.... _God

/ :)

re: #25 Lively

That's bad news for dead people in Chicago and illegal immigrants.

The dead people and illegal immigrants all go vote in Wisconsin, after they've voted in Chicago.

I hear Rev Wright is still yapping.

re: #27 savage_nation

Damn right!

Time to spread the Love.

// {;-)™

re: #24 Da_Beerfreak

OT but too good not to post.

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
The court vote 6-3 to uphold Indiana's strict photo ID requirement. Democrats and civil rights groups say the law would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.

Now the vote fraudsters have to come up with a passable fake ID for each of their fake voters.

re: #29 Son of the Black Dog

The dead people and illegal immigrants all go vote in Wisconsin, after they've voted in Chicago.

Yes, they get around.

re: #26 zombie

Well, pot-bellied Achmed from Yemen was tempting, but would I really want to be third wife behind a camel and a kidnapped human shield?

Or, the husband of Fatima, Fatima, Fatima and Aisha? As the case may be....

A lot of my spam uses foreign character encodings, so it's incomprehensible. Here's one that just arrived (I doubt this will work, but what the hell, give it a try):

ñïá ðîä äîì n1 ïîðíî çâåçäà ðóññêèå ôîòî ñòåñíÿåòñÿ ñôèíêñ ôîòî ïðîäàòü ñòàðóþ ìàøèíó êëîóí òðàõàåò ïîðíî ãåè ÷àòû ïîðíî ôîòî ïåíçà âîçáóæäåíèå ìóæ÷èíû íèìôåòêè ôîòî îòåö òðàõàåò ñûíà ôîòî âèäåî ëåôîðòîâñêèé òîííåëü ñìåðòè èäóùàÿ äåâóøêà ðûæêîâ ôîòîú ãðîçíûé ôîòîãàëåðåÿ 3ivx mpeg 4 ïüÿíûõ äåâî÷åê òðàõàþò ñåêñ 1 2 ðàçà äåøîâîå ôîòî ïðîäþñåð æåíùèíà êåìåðîâî èíòèì óñëóãè íîðìàëüíûé âåñ òåëà äåâî÷êè 13 14ëåò [Link: www...] music ru íîâîðîññèéñê øèðîêàÿ áàëêà ôîòî ôîòî ñèíÿÿ ïòèöà granny sex ôîòî òèíà êàðîëü

(Ooops, didn't work, as expected, so I'll crop off the bottom 90% of it.)

That's a typical email for me.

re: #26 zombie

Well, pot-bellied Achmed from Yemen was tempting, but would I really want to be third wife behind a camel and a kidnapped human shield?

You deserve better than that.

re: #24 Da_Beerfreak

OT but too good not to post.

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
The court vote 6-3 to uphold Indiana's strict photo ID requirement. Democrats and civil rights groups say the law would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.

Have to say this makes me happier than a school girl! I never understood how anyone could see no IDs as anything but encouraging fraud. The left doesn't care as long as the MSM is willing in its complicity.

Yay, SCOTUS, screw you ACLU!

It effects the link viewer as well.

re: #35 zombie

Spam Sieve. Very good at catching that stuff.

Gmail is really good at catching spam.

re: #22 zombie

Asking my son, right this sec, by i.m., at his computer programming job....how that can possibly be --that you cannot cancel something that has your own info on it!

re: #24 Da_Beerfreak

OT but too good not to post.

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
The court vote 6-3 to uphold Indiana's strict photo ID requirement. Democrats and civil rights groups say the law would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.

YEA! Take that, Dems!

(jumping up and down)

re: #40 Vinnie

Gmail is really good at catching spam.

Except that it's part of Google.

/bend to evil

re: #35 zombie

Doesn't Spam Assassin catch those for you? Seems to catch all of mine...

re: #35 zombie

granny sex

Erm... celebrate diversity?

re: #41 Ma Sands

re: #22 zombie

Asking my son, right this sec, by i.m., at his computer programming job....how that can possibly be --that you cannot cancel something that has your own info on it!

Sigh....sorry...he's in a meeting....it'll take a little longer than "right now"..... ):

Or propagate perversity... something like that.

Right now I'm listening to the Press Corp/Rev Wright questions/answers. Here's the problem: he has so many sermons up his sleeve or in his memory that you can ask any question and he will make an unrelated sermon point out of it, instead of just answering the question.

re: #30 Lively

I hear Rev Wright is still yapping.

Different means what again? I keep forgetting.

Whew, it frightened me when it said "You're not allowed to use...." I thought Charles was tired of me. I feel better now-I can sleep tonight.

re: #22 zombie

Much more annoying are some Middle Eastern social networking sites that send a notification email every time someone comments on my profile -- a profile which someone else set up for me using my return address and over which I have no control. So then spambots leave spam-comments by the hundreds on my profile page on this or that Arabic chat site, and I get a notification email each time.

I was going to suggest using the 'forgotten password' feature to reset the password and then you'd have access to the account - but if it's in a foreign language you might not be able to find the 'forgotten password' feature.

Time's Joe Klein: Wright Is Out To Destroy Obama

It's a conspiracy!

Rove, you magnificent bastard!

re: #48 Lively

Gulp.....maybe there is something to what my kids say about how I answer them..... ):

/ :)

re: #41 Ma Sands

Asking my son, right this sec, by i.m., at his computer programming job....how that can possibly be --that you cannot cancel something that has your own info on it!

If the site is in a foreign language, how do you find the option to cancel your account? Furthermore, not every site is ethical in requiring verification to create an account, or in making it easy to cancel one. Hell, I've heard horror stories from people who tried to cancel their AOL accounts!

1) you must be accepting cookies from LGF

Someone call the obesity police!

re: #55 zmdavid

1) you must be accepting cookies from LGF

Someone call the obesity police!

If you don't want cookies, there is the fruit cup option.

re: #52 Ward Cleaver

Time's Joe Klein: Wright Is Out To Destroy Obama

It's a conspiracy!

Rove, you magnificent bastard!

It's like Mission Impossible. Wright is going to peel off his face mask and reveal Rove.

Come over to the LGF side,
We haz cookies.

// and don't forget your photo ID

By the way, if you hit the "show links" button, all it does lately is open the thread in a new window instead of showing the thread links like it used to do.

/at least for me using IE7

re: #51 Charles

re: #22 zombie

Much more annoying are some Middle Eastern social networking sites that send a notification email every time someone comments on my profile -- a profile which someone else set up for me using my return address and over which I have no control. So then spambots leave spam-comments by the hundreds on my profile page on this or that Arabic chat site, and I get a notification email each time.

I was going to suggest using the 'forgotten password' feature to reset the password and then you'd have access to the account - but if it's in a foreign language you might not be able to find the 'forgotten password' feature.

Okay: PAGING ALL ARABIC-SPEAKING LIZARDS! (for zombie's sake)

re: #54 JamesTKirk

Well.....hope springs eternal --at least in my heart..... :)

re: #58 Da_Beerfreak

Come over to the LGF side,
We haz cookies.

// and don't forget your photo ID

No, just like the Democrats, we don't discriminate against the non-living.

/points at Zombie

re: #41 Ma Sands

Asking my son, right this sec, by i.m., at his computer programming job....how that can possibly be --that you cannot cancel something that has your own info on it!

I don't have the password to "my" account.

Besides, the sites are in Arabic or whatever, and I'd be completely unable to navigate them.

How it works is:

There's a badly designed Muslim sex-chat room, let's say. You have to sign up to be a member, but they don't require you to verify your email address to join -- you can sign up with any email address. So a jihadi will sign up with my email address, and turn the settings to "notify via email every time you get a comment." Then he walks away -- done. Over time, spambots will start leaving me messages, and I'll start getting notification emails for them.

The account exists, with my email address, using a password some other person made up, and I have no way of canceling it or turning it off.

What I can do is set up a specific email block for that one domain (which I do occasionally do), but even doing that becomes completely overwhelming and tedious, as they sign me up all the time.

re: #39 Charles

Spam Sieve. Very good at catching that stuff.

I'll look into it! Thanks!

You know, there's something to be said for being invisible on the 'net.

Charles,

I was testing out the contact for, I kept getting "you are not authorized" error no matter what state my browser was in. I used FireFox 2. The form only worked properly when I was actually logged in. I had cookies and java script on during he errors.

re: #44 Charles

Doesn't Spam Assassin catch those for you? Seems to catch all of mine...

I'm going to nudge up my Spam Assassin level, to see if that helps.

Sorry in advance everyone if your emails to me get shunted into the spam category!

I've often thought that the anonimity of the Internet is the greatest testosterone enhancer yet discovered.

re: #59 Killian Bundy

By the way, if you hit the "show links" button, all it does lately is open the thread in a new window instead of showing the thread links like it used to do.

/at least for me using IE7

IE7 uses you.

re: #59 Killian Bundy

By the way, if you hit the "show links" button, all it does lately is open the thread in a new window instead of showing the thread links like it used to do.

/at least for me using IE7

Works for me in Firefox 2.0.0.13.

In Soviet Russia...

re: #69 incanus

IE7 uses you.

re: #51 Charles

I was going to suggest using the 'forgotten password' feature to reset the password and then you'd have access to the account - but if it's in a foreign language you might not be able to find the 'forgotten password' feature.

That's the key problem. I have no way to navigate these sites!

Half the time, I can't even tell what language it's in, much less understand it!

re: #72 zombie

That's the key problem. I have no way to navigate these sites!

Half the time, I can't even tell what language it's in, much less understand it!

You need to learn to view the Matrix directly ;-)

Zombie:
[Link: img519.imageshack.us...]

** If I cleared out my cookies completely then the contact form works fine without being logged in. There must be some cookie residue left over that is not jiving with LGF cookie reads.

re: #63 zombie

Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to write all that out for me. :)

Here's a good example:

chat.zendehrood.com

I'm a "member" of innumberable Middle Eastern chat/dating/sex sites like this.

This particular one looks Iranian, in Farsi.

re: #75 Egfrow

** If I cleared out my cookies completely then the contact form works fine without being logged in. There must be some cookie residue left over that is not jiving with LGF cookie reads.

You don't need to be logged in to use the form... just need cookies and Javascript enabled.

Charles, looks like I had Cache Trash left over. Clearing out the cache and cookies seemed to cure the issue.

re: #65 vxbush

You know, there's something to be said for being invisible on the 'net.

You can say that again!

I wish I was as invisible on the Net as I am in real life!

re: #68 irongrampa

I've often thought that the anonimity of the Internet is the greatest testosterone enhancer yet discovered.

Testosterone enhancer or chickenshit producer?

I find the anonimity of the internet produces a lot of chickenshits who love to slander here, but would never think of doing it in real life due to their own fear.

CHANGE::

New York Times looses 9% of its Sunday circulation.

Change is Change if you like Change.

I don't see why clearing cookies would have anything to do with it, unless you were somehow at your browser's maximum cookies-per-site allotment.

re: #78 Charles

Oh, They were enabled, I never disable them. FireFox has a way of collecting trash inside it's cache over time.

Trash in the cache...

Is that anything like junk in the trunk?

re: #68 irongrampa

I've often thought that the anonimity of the Internet is the greatest testosterone enhancer yet discovered.

[Link: www.penny-arcade.com...]

re: #82 taxfreekiller

CHANGE::

New York Times looses 9% of its Sunday circulation.

Change is Change if you like Change.

Don't worry. When the Dems get back into power, we'll all have the lovely and Orwellian-named "Fairness Doctrine" to prop up support for the NYT.

re: #6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

BE SURE TO USE CAPS LOCK AND BOLD AND YOUR COMMENT WILL BE NOTICED

The "liberal" USE of *Punctuation* and cApItAlIzAtIoN is <always> a +plus+!

KB, I use IE7 and just tried clicking on the "show top rated links" and also the "show spin off links" buttons and they are working for me.

re: #85 Charles

Trash in the cache...

Is that anything like junk in the trunk?

That's what happens when you accept too many cookies.

re: #81 Honorary Yooper

Works for both, Yooper--btw how you doin today?

re: #90 zmdavid

That's what happens when you accept too many cookies.

Bloatware......

re: #83 Charles

Maybe that was it, But until I cleared the Cache and cookies from the browers I could only use the form function when I was actually logged in to LGF. I logged out or restarted the browser it wouldn't work again.

Once I cleared it all out now it works like it should.