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Does anyone know if the legal action involving a certain holiday company ever took place? The one
that involved all that so-called censorship shite in the GTBR.
Or was it, as I reckon, all a 'save our advertisers [and someone's boyfriend] necks' and a load of
old fanny.
Talking of Old Fanny, here she comes now.....
yes it's the panto season already folks
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before any other sparklett says it,
'Oh no it isn't'
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If you ask me, and I'm loathe to open old wounds, but this whole affair is similar to and stinks of
the problems a few months back with THAT holiday company.
I too, complained to Roddy about Knickers and he pointed out in the email that he sent me (and I'd
imagine a few others as well, from the wording of the e-mail) that now, because the censorship is
acting for the benefit of a user rather than a company, it's all okay. I'm not trying to open a
huge debate about this AGAIN because it's been done to death now, but the tables have turned, and
everyone's praising Dave for getting rid of this person (I am as well! Way to go Dave!), but when
Roddy did the same, everyone slagged him off, including me, which I think I owe Roddy an apology
for...
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Shy - the differences in these cases are this:
1) knickers/whoever made personal attacks about an individual that had nothing to do with anything
other than hurting an individual,
2) members of the BR complained privately to Dave. Dave then asked contributors what they wanted
done. Many contributors - myself included - wrote to Dave with our thoughts. Dave then acted on
those.
3) with regards to the holiday company, there were so really libellous statements made. However, the
GT people acted and then failed to explain themselves. Or at least they failed to explain
themselves in the public forum. By the time they did explain themselves a lot of noses had gotten
out of joint and some people were extremely angry. It was an example of how not to handle a tricky
situation. This was compounded because when the explanation did come it was considered too little,
too late by those who were upset.
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Is it just moi, or is there a hilarious side to this in the fact that we're all getting irate about
somebody called 'knickers' ?????
Blame on all those Carry On films, but that's a word I can never avoid giggling at - rather like
'knockers', or 'bristols'....
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Why are they called "Bristols"? It's a fantastic word, but I am unsure of the origin.
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Hmmmmmmm not sure really.
Having a dig at the GTBR is a bit rich IMHO.
The baying hounds were out here as well, for knickers, gog or whoever I'm not comfortable with all
this.
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I'm not comfortable with knickers situation (finar! finar!) because if he is in Manchester, then
Telewest doesn't extend to this area. This is a NTL region. But if the IP address is the same, then
these are usually unique to one computer. So i'll just reserve judgement for now.
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dlt not comfortable with knickers - do we assume that you go around under-pant-less then, dances?
It's a bit cold right now for all that, it'll shrivel up, petal....
enema.
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I'm afraid not not enema, I am a boxers person. However, I did go mostly commando in Brazil a few
years back due to the heat!
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IPs are actually assigned dynamically by your ISP, from a 'pool'. They're often 'virtual IPs' which
means, for example, that 2 BT Internet users, posting at the same time on the same forum, could
have the same IP. This has happened in one of the telly forums I use, causing a helluva lot of
confusion and upset!
If you have an always on broadband connection then your IP will remain constant, but anyone using
a UK dial-up service can change their IP by simply hanging up and reconnecting.
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But as I understand it Lynz only the last few digits are effected in the way. The first few stay
the same.
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Make sure it doesn't corrode, dlt...
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Silly boy! Everybody knows that IP addresses are made up of a few binary numbers and mathematically
could not corrode!!
*waits for accusation of being a killjoy!*
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Killjoy!
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Yep, only the last few numbers change, but they still don't give a good indication of who/where
the poster is!
According to a lookup on my I.P. I'm in Preston right now, ah well, only a few hundred miles out!
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how do you look up the location suiii?
enema.
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If you go to that website Dave mentioned, or download a look-up program (try download.com) enter the
IP, et voila, a location!
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- THAT Holiday company - 