[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by wvglfan

I'm back!
Wes and Char, I'm at least as puzzled as are you. Yesterday, I posted a reply to Char's welcome and to thank her (and Wes).........
.....So, you might be right, John. It must have something to do with the goblins getting a head start on their Halloween mischief-making!
.......So, all is well. Thanks to you in particular, John, for giving this so much of your time and thought.
Now, I have to get back to work! Have a wonderful week, all.

You are very welcome Mr/Ms??? Sorry not knowing your name it is not possible to determine your gender hence my hedging my bets with he/she etc references
It bothered me tht the flow of the thread had been broken by the deletions but I have to say also that I am mightily impressed that Char knows how to resurrect deleted messages. Somebody has obviously written a superb tutorial that even a caveman could understand!!

Originally Posted by charlene

I didn't do nuffink....
lol

Originally Posted by charlene

I just 'undeleted' them...perhaps when deleting dozens of posts/spammers they were inadvertently deleted...they're back!

Err Unm,Ma'am.It Sure sounds like yoiu did rather more than "nuffink"
Seriiously Char you really ought to badger Florian to improve the protection of the site from these malefactors and robot merchants.
It cannot be necesary for you to have to be constantly deleting the utter drivel they come up with having found thst it is dead easy to become a member here and then rapidly post a heap of horse manure tp several threads in all four forums in a very short time
.Moreover those of us who subscribe to many threads also are spending precious time deleting the gsrbage from our email inboxes
It sems to me that the existing CAPTCHA arangement to weed out non human new members is a dismal failure and totally inadequate. I frequently think of you when signing up for a new forum elsewhere , Many have a succession of CAPTCHA like blocks on joining and posting messages without entailing the moderators in any approval action
I frequently curse at most of the word entry ones because they use stoopid non-words that being unfamiliar are often hard to read or contain mixed upper and lower case letters with no hint of whether it is essential to get the cases 100% correct.However I came across a different one recently that required a genuine human to click on the correct picture out of four that was an image of a dog. That ought to prevent the spurious attempts of robots using names like abcd123 etc from making me puke with even more references to wow friggin gold!!
If one googles forCAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
you willlesrn that a CAPTCHA is a Reverse Turing Test named after the computer pioneer Alan Turing who was educated at the English "Public" (i.e. Private/fee paying ) school in my town of birth Sherborne in Dorset. where I was living in 1999 when met a lady from New Jersey n what was then a busy Gordon Lightfoot Chat Room Susan was probably even more internet timid than you before you posted here.
Maybe I should try to resurrect the chat room (our last two hosting websites gave up or failed)
　

there are a large number of programs out there some presumably free
a few acknowledge the ;problems with text based programs and use images instead
Another method I have proved works I have used successfully for a number of years to ptotect my own website's visitor's book. For quite a while it was constantly attracting cretinous postings. if you now visit my website and click on its sign my Guestbook link you will open:-
http://www,johnfowles.org,uk/.guardian.htm
and see in action a very simple and free Javascript solution called Guardian courtesy of the programmer known only as "blank66".
The full Javascript source code is still downloadable from his website at:-
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/...ardian_v1.html
Either left click on the Gurdian script hyperlink to open the text file guardian.txt or right click then "Save Target As to save the 1883 byte text file
Apparently I uploaded the revised entry page for the guestbook in June 2005 having just had to delete 92 unwanted comments received in the previous 24 hours and I have had none since so it really works a treat no tricks or goblins!
Hows about it young Florian???