Monday, 25 August 2003

LDotter Note: Again, we have to jump on posters about language. There are a lot of stories in the news about things we used to not talk about in public. We can't help that but this site was not built to add to the coarseness of the times. Sexual, scatological posts, posts that advocate death and dismemberment and posts that use offensive language will be deleted. The next time a poster gets lazy about their vocabulary, they will be banned. If you can't express yourself any other way go to dictionary.com and do a little work. There are chat rooms on the web where you can talk as dirty as you like. We are not one of them.

J. Scott Applewhite - Associated Press
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003

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Intern Update: Our summer interns, while hardly the sheltered progeny of privilege, have voiced concern over some of the tasteless replies they have had to delete. As free speech advocates, this is a sometimes painful exercise. We know it is difficult in this a summer of sodomy news, Ann Coulter and Hillary on the hustings, jocks, both talk and sports behaving badly and general unrest in the world to maintain a comfortable level of civility but let's try a little harder. Don't type dirty and try not to suggest killing people. After all, it's for the children.
Igor is in charge of putting them through their paces. They are a tough minded crew and we warn you that they have no patience with headlines written in all caps, stories posted without the proper link or comments that are either too blue for the board or advocate killing this and that one on the public scene. Now you know, so don't get your feelings hurt if you get zapped for some reason. It's just pay back from youngsters who have been enduring liberal professors all winter.

URGENT Ldotter Alert: If you have a Yahoo!.com email address and are wondering why we have not answered you - Yahoo! addressed emails are being returned to us as undeliverable. AOL users: Make sure your email address will accept our response - those rejection replies from Daemon@aol are rough on Igor.

Tin Cup Time: War is expensive and our bandwidth bills are coming in. Our traffic nearly doubled in the last month and our advertising, sadly, did not keep pace. We considered sending Igor out onto Broadway with a cup but out of work dot-commers had already claimed the begging rights for several blocks. We'd appreciate any contributions not only so we can keep our cutthroat server happy but keep your site here purring. The little credit card icon at the very top left of the page does the trick, or for the click-challenged the snail-mail address is listed as well.
9june2003-ed

Housekeeping Note: Those Ldotters who are clever enough to know how to post photos on threads would do us a great favor it you would simply post the link and not the picture itself unless, of course, it is one of your own. It has to do with other sites complaining about use of their pictures and our bookkeeper complaining about the size of our bandwidth bills.  Thanks.

No if's and's or *$()#@()#!!!'s:
We remind you that using symbols to get around the 'dirty-word-filter' is not acceptable. We see a growing number of these being used and we will be revoking the posting privileges of those who continue to 'swear by them'.
Updated 02 MAY 03 - ed.

Registration update: Due to an outbreak of spam and virus infected our address has been modified to Registration3@LComHQ.com.
Updated 7April03 -ed.

Thank Our Troops: Visit the Department of Defense web page and sign in and thank the men and women of the U.S. military services for defending our freedom.The compiled list of names will be sent out to our soldiers at the end of the month.
-From the mail: 25 March 2003 -ed

From the suggestion box: You know what would be great for this site? A small area where we "members" could go to see the definitions of terms used regularly (or less-than-regularly), such as "PIAPS", et al.... Anyway, I hope you get the idea. It would be useful and kinda' fun, to boot.....
Email us with your cool words or the ones you want defined to: Ideas@lcomhq.com and we'll put them together with your help and your ideas!

18 March 2003-ed.

Reviewing the mail:

We couldn't agree more: There has been lately an increase in the number of, uh, visiors posting grotesquely crude and insulting sexual comments. They don't necessarily include George Carlin's famous list of forbidden words, but the effect is probably even more damaging to the site.-Ldotter 'MAB2' 9March2003

Subject: Word Count Limitation
Dear Webmaster,
I am trying to post a reply on one of the threads and I keep getting a message that says my post is too long and exceeds word count (or something to that effect). I have edited it down, I think the original post was around 300 words and the new one is around 200, but it still says I am exceeding the posting limitation. I went to the rules and re-read them and cannot find any word count limits. . .so, I was wondering if you could help me out on this as I’ve been posting on this site for quite sometime now and have never received this message.

This is the result of recent changes made to our posting software in response to the growing number of posts that included copyrighted text in excess of the terms permitted under US Copyright Law. If your reply exceeds the limit of approximately 200 words, your post will not go thru until your post is shortened.

Updated 14 March 2003-ed.

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