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Hi Mutt
Getting my ISP to empty their cache..... This is Oman.....I can't even get them to answer the phone lol :) Vive la mort, vive la guerre... |
Is the requirement to login to read posts going to be a permanent feature?
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Is the requirement to login to read posts going to be a permanent feature? Would an administrater please explain the reasoning behind these changes. As a matter of principle I do not like or want either of these changes as I do not want my internet usage monitored by anyone. |
Had a cookie placed ever since I registered way back in 2000
Cookie = No logon required. Mmmmm we love cookies :ok: Nice one Daniel, all good now :O |
As a matter of principle I do not like or want either of these changes as I do not want my internet usage monitored by anyone. |
Any chance of an answer from Admin or are we still working to the mushroom principle?
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^^BUMP!^^
See this has dropped to page 2 where there is a risk that someone from Admin might miss my very simple, and I suggest not unreasonable question. I may not get an answer at all then! |
now it would appear that I have to let pprune put a cookie on my machine which I have never had to do before. |
Presumably you've never ticked the "remember me" box before. |
Why should I |
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Thank you for that WL, would never have thought to look there. At least you took the trouble to respond, a simple, short PM and /or announcement and explanation for the rule change below Admin's dignity perhaps?
"Keeps out the riff-raff" indeed, touch of the Basil Fawlty syndrome I suggest. Still, if I don't like it, as the man says in his usual modest manner, "You've got a mouse - if it really annoys you make us suffer and go elswhere". I do hope this is not a suicide note but with recent history in mind I cannot be too confident, bearing in mind Lord Acton's maxim. |
Am I only one that I get an intermediate screen to insert some computer generated characters after I inserted my password?
Rwy in Sight |
Am I only one that I get an intermediate screen to insert some computer generated characters after I inserted my password? |
I've had three since yesterday in addition to having to sign in. :confused:
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The log in process is now extremely annoying - rather like the sycophantic responses on page one of this thread...
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Know what you mean.
A real drag. A bit like turning on the tap and water coming out, or flicking a switch and the light coming on. Never know where I find the time :ugh: |
Well perhaps you're on a super-high-speed connection. For me, it's like turning on the tap, and then having to go and adjust the stop-cock in the garage outside, before the water comes out.
At least the first page didn't have too much in the way of boring sarcasm... |
"sycophantic responses"
"boring sarcasm" Lighten up man. It's the weekend :ok: Cheers El G. |
Am I only one that I get an intermediate screen to insert some computer generated characters after I inserted my password? |
Despite conforming to the requests in a couple of versions of this message, I still appear to get it every day at first logon. Becoming rather tedious.
One step forward two steps back !!! Hello El Grifo! This is a special announcement from PPRuNe Forums Admin. Further to our previous message about keeping your email address up to date and your password secure, we have found the cause of the repeated hack attempts into members accounts is a script (HackBot) that has been written with malicious and nuisance intent. As members profiles do not contain any information that should be of any value to hackers and studying the way the hack attempts have been carried out, it has been determined that the HackBot is intended as a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. As the computer running the HackBot is using an AOL IP address, after it has randomly tried to access an account, the account is locked out and the IP address blocked for 15 minutes. If another AOL user with the same IP address tries to log-in within the 15 minutes of lock-out, they will get the locked out message too. In order to stifle the HackBot, we have had to block the IP address being used which has caused more inconvenience to some AOL users. For this we apologise but it is the only way we can prevent the HackBot from running. We have also introduced a 'Captcha' image code section to the log-in which is designed to make sure that it is a human rather than a Bot trying to access PPRuNe. The Captcha image code is turned on and off randomly and you may or may not encounter it. Overall, the recent attack has not breached our security and is intended only to be a nuisance to the Admin of the site and to our members. It has only partially succeeded and the appropriate authorities have been notified. Once again, we apologise for any inconvenience that may have been caused by the extra security we have had to implement. Please click here to contact us for if you need any assistance. |
Is this a permanant change, or just temporary until things calm down?
Over the last week or so, certain threads have recieved hardly any extra views, this probably explains why. One of the things about PPRuNe is (was?) being able to write things in a place where it might be noticed by interested parties. I'm thinking mainly of the Military Aircrew forum - where things may be said that people sort of want to be seen. I can understand why limiting visitors to so many pages was introduced, and why measures to keep Hackbots etc (what are they, anyway?) are needed. Maybe I've answered my own question... |
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