13 Jul
2012
13 Jul
'12
4:10 p.m.
Has anyone heard from Grant Stockly recently? The Altair Kit forums have
fallen into the hands of spammers, and I haven't been able to reach him
through email. He announced a new sale of kits in early June, but I
didn't find out about it until last week. I was hoping to get in on
it.
-Seth
14 Jul
14 Jul
12:19 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Seth Morabito wrote:
Has anyone heard from Grant Stockly recently? The
Altair Kit forums have
fallen into the hands of spammers, and I haven't been able to reach him
through email. He announced a new sale of kits in early June, but I
didn't find out about it until last week. I was hoping to get in on
it.
I just now spoke with him on the phone. He's been busy with a bunch of
stuff including business and kids. I let him know about this post and he
said he'd post something when he gets home.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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16 Jul
16 Jul
12:14 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:19 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Seth Morabito wrote:
I was in email contact with him 18th and 19th of June, he said he
would send an order form later (nothing yet).
ah yes, the forum spam. Forums need constant spam fighting these
days. I have moderated some in the past, and I'm moderating another
these days. It's a full-time activity. What works best seems to be to
require first post to be moderated. But this requires that the forum
actually has a group of moderators. Non-moderated forums don't work
these days. What the world needs is of course a global task force to
deal with spammers.. physically. And those who pay the spammers, some
of those spammers are actually real people, in some far-away country,
(presumably) paid to sit day in and day out adding rubbish to forums
and wikis (after a while you start figuring out the differences
between the bots and the people).
.-Tor
Has anyone heard from Grant Stockly recently? The
Altair Kit forums have
fallen into the hands of spammers, and I haven't been able to reach him
through email. He announced a new sale of kits in early June, but I
didn't find out about it until last week. I was hoping to get in on
it.
I just now spoke with him on the phone. He's been busy with a bunch of
stuff including business and kids. I let him know about this post and he
said he'd post something when he gets home.
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