Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time

[badkarma]

The ignore function is only for private messages void

[foobar]

No comments from clock?

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by -=f00bar=-:
No comments from clock?

I think you all hurt his feelings  

I mean, you shouldent chase people like that away. Flaming Trolls is hald the fun of forums  

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by BadKarma:
The ignore function is only for private messages void

That explains it! Thanks Karm! The proxy server trick works perfectly. I filter out just Clocks images and no one elses. It makes me a little nervous that images are actually allowed in posts.  I mean it would be trivial to include an image in your message that resides on a server you control and track the IP addresses of the people reading these forums.  And it wouldn't be too difficult to match up the time/IPaddr in the server logs with the time on a message posted in a forum and figure out the exact IP address of the each individual user who posts on this site.

Or am I just being paranoid?

[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[jtpenrod]

quote: I mean it would be trivial to include an image in your message that resides on a server you control and track the IP addresses of the people reading these forums. And it wouldn't be too difficult to match up the time/IPaddr in the server logs with the time on a message posted in a forum and figure out the exact IP address of the each individual user who posts on this site.

Or am I just being paranoid?

That's pretty much how "web bugs" - tiny little gif's no more than 1 X 1 or 2 X 2 pixels in size work (but you knew that already    ) My cache picks up quite a few of those fuckers every time I go on-line. WTF do I care? Since I use dial-up, my IP address is constantly changing anyway. Besides, I don't think I'll be getting a whole helluva lot of Macro$uck spam for visiting this site    

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[Calum]

true, i don't care either, since i post through a LAN, and it's not even mine, it's work's, but what if you *did* care?
Reason enough to worry, i reckon...

And as to why clock is not replying, it's because he only needs one incidence of his crappy graphic on each page to track all the activities on that page (given the scenario above), so what's the incentive for him to post in this topic again?

[Gooseberry Clock]

Now why would I want to track the activites on THIS page? No, I have something much better in store for you guys.

[voidmain]

Good, he posted again.  Now I got *his* IP.  Time to go to work!  

[Gooseberry Clock]

In case you haven't noticed, I'm on a 56K dial-up. What are you gonna do? Spam my ICQ?

[ March 21, 2002: Message edited by: Gooseberry Clock ]

[Gooseberry Clock]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
it's because he only needs one incidence of his crappy graphic on each page to track all the activities on that page (given the scenario above)

Actually, that's not a bad idea. Feel free to click on it at any time to see the most popular platform and browser.

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:


Actually, that's not a bad idea. Feel free to click on it at any time to see the most popular platform and browser.

Looks like win2 98 and Mozilla/Netscape based browsers. That's only this section of the forums. I wonder what the hit readouts are for the whole site?

[Centurian]

Hey Gooseberry Clock,

Just to let you know Bravenet isn't very accurate when it comes to picking up browsers or OS's. I use a bravenet counter on my site and it picks me up as either Windows 2000 or Linux when I am using Linux. When I am using W98 it picks me up as W98. They almost never get the browser right.

Their IP is usually off a bit also. A friend of mine has high speed internet (lucky bastard) with a set IP. When ever he visits my website his IP number is one off of what it actually is about 75% of the time. I have noticed with my dialup they get it wrong about 60% of the time.

The other stats tend to be quite accurate though so I kept it.

[voidmain]

And also to let you know, I don't get counted because my advertisement filter in my proxy server also strips out all counters. But if you want to be more accurate you'll have to add at least one hit for Linux/Konqueror in yer little database.

[Calum]

hey, go to this topic if you can be bothered and look at the sadness of gooseberry clock.
he is complaining that he is not allowed to flood the forums. shall we start a campaign to relax the flood control regulations just for him? hmm? since he has so much of value to contribute? can i suggest instead that he should be banned for 60 years between posts rather than the customary 60 seconds?
Also, in a sulk, he has posted a post full of a big long line of exclamation points so that you have to scroll sideways all the time to read the posts. what a sad git.
Can somebody with admin access sort that out please?
ta.....

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock in this forum:
To whoever sent me that virus

I wasn't fooled for a second.

Gods! this moron turns up everywhere!
fuck off, clock!
nobody sent you a virus! nobody gives a shit about you! why would anybody here waste their time?
here's twenty pence, go and buy a second hand life......