| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| page0178 |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 09:41:03 AM
Just curious....has anyone been getting "spam" e-mail from "members" of the TR message board? I've gotten a couple and one even had a virus in it. Of course, I was trusting and opened them because they were from the board. Anyone else getting these or am I special??   |
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| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 12/05/2006 : 10:07:14 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hopeful Rolling Waves
This thread is CLOSED.
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| dan p. |
Posted - 12/05/2006 : 4:50:57 PM
hey. jackass. it wasn't condenscending, it was a fucking joke. i was making a joke. did you not read the part in a past post on this thread where i said that? post where i said i was joking? i made a joke, you misinterpreted it and then got all pissy. what's the fucking mystery? you're the one who attacked first. how fucking dense can you be? and what contradictions? i read through my posts, and damnedest thing, i couldn't find one contradiction. for review: ". .i was kidding. why would i assume you visit porn sites when i don't know you? or, more importantly, why would i care? when i said "stay off the porn sites. seriously." it was a joke. . ."
let me translate her post for those of us who don't speak idiot. "I'll let you figure out where since i'm sure you wouldn't like an idiot pointing it out to you." means "i just pulled an accusation out of my ass and i have no way to back it up." and "unless its for the benefit of others, don't spend a lot of time responding to my post, i won't see it." means "i'm running away because i know i'm wrong but i refuse to admit it."
well, if she's gone, she's gone. good luck evergreen. try real hard not to be too fucking stupid. jesus. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 12/05/2006 : 2:05:50 PM
This thread is CLOSED. |
| Evergreen |
Posted - 12/05/2006 : 1:21:06 PM
pjk, dan,
well......i guess you told me where to go! and...good luck with that.
It’s interesting pjk that you were being nice and sympathizing with Heather and i in the beginning. Then when dan started to attack, you followed along. I guess you really put us in our place with your “if you don’t like it don’t stick around” comment. It sucks for TR that some of the people who occupy his message board are chasing new and old people away and making comments like "leave if you don't like it". and that is exactly what you're doing here why else would you be so defensive about it.
Which is why i responded to dan as i did. Why would you even bother to post on this thread if you didn't get the spam?(due to the amount of contradictions in your posts above please don't answer that). I read the board for the first time in a while and come back to a condescending comment from dan similar to when i was on here 8 months ago. Thicker skin? yeah thats funny, more like i prefer to be in the company of people who respect one another. why does it have to be a place that requires thick skin?? so that you and pam can insult the hell out of someone and they are content with it? or.....we can "just leave if we don't like it". But you don't like it when i respond the same way back to you?? Oh and lets have this thread fall to the bottom so no one sees how a pattern is forming. Funny, but as Heather mentions, other message boards i frequent are NOTHING like the bad taste thats left from here. Interesting about both of you over reacting to people saying why they don't stick around too.
Heather said,quote:
For what it's worth, and I'm not trying to single anyone out or embarrass anyone, this board is probably the worst board I've been to. Only because it seems that everyone is against everyone else. I'm a member of several others and it seems that all the board members are friends with one another....I even have some myspace friends from other boards. That's just one reason why I do not visit this board anymore. I do not know the other person's reason, but that may be it as well. We are all TR fans in here, why do we all continue to act rude to each other? I mean, within my first 3 posts on this board, I was "attacked" by a rude member. That sure does turn a lot of people off.
guess i'm not the only one feeling this way. and if i wanted to spend more time i'd find others that have made similar comments in the past few yrs.
pjk and dan you have contradicted yourselves quite a few times with your above comments/posts. I'll let you figure out where since i'm sure you wouldn't like an idiot pointing it out to you. i think you are confusing a lack of thick skin with confronting you about your comments and behavior. i do feel TR does not deserve this pointless squabbling that takes place on his website. I apologize for that but had to get my last 2 cents in after being attacked by both of you. makes me part of the problem but i refuse to shut up and let the insults go unnoticed. no one wants to read it (from me either)and its not fair to anyone esp TR whos trying to build a fan base not have them chased away. I'm satisfied to know we are VERY different people and satisfied to hang out with other people. unless its for the benefit of others, don't spend a lot of time responding to my post, i won't see it.
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| PJK |
Posted - 12/03/2006 : 09:55:00 AM
quote:
ah yes, but every big thing is actually just a collection of little things, specifically arranged and interacting in a certain way. if the little things aren't in order, what hope is there for the big things? plus it all lies on perspective. we encounter the little things daily. so to us, they're big, meaning more important, than the big things we see on the news. if i may pose another one of my bogus mathematical theorems:
theorem
there exists an incident (I) whereby the size (S) of the perceived I is determined by its magnitude (M) multiplied by it's frequency (F.) that is, S = M(F) where M>0 and F is less than or equal to 10. for example: if spam mail occurs with a frequency of 10, possessing a magnitude of 1, it may be said that the perceived size (S) of spam mail is 1x10=10. conversely, the apocalypse may said to have a magnitude of 10 and a frequency of 0, thusly S=10X0=0.
i've tried working in a value for the chance of I into the equation, but i can't quite figure out how.
LOL! You're too much dan! Thanks for the laugh, nice way to start the day. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 12/03/2006 : 03:06:06 AM
ah yes, but every big thing is actually just a collection of little things, specifically arranged and interacting in a certain way. if the little things aren't in order, what hope is there for the big things? plus it all lies on perspective. we encounter the little things daily. so to us, they're big, meaning more important, than the big things we see on the news. if i may pose another one of my bogus mathematical theorems:
theorem
there exists an incident (I) whereby the size (S) of the perceived I is determined by its magnitude (M) multiplied by it's frequency (F.) that is, S = M(F) where M>0 and F is less than or equal to 10. for example: if spam mail occurs with a frequency of 10, possessing a magnitude of 1, it may be said that the perceived size (S) of spam mail is 1x10=10. conversely, the apocalypse may said to have a magnitude of 10 and a frequency of 0, thusly S=10X0=0.
i've tried working in a value for the chance of I into the equation, but i can't quite figure out how. |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/02/2006 : 2:22:38 PM
I emailed a friend of mine and there was a form I had to fill out first, then he had to "OK me" before my emails would go through. I don't know what he had on his computer but I liked that idea. Most of my spam is filtered out, but some still gets on and the one from this board was one of them. I only opened it because it was from here, but I didn't get a virus since they are filtered out. Again, since I put NO in the contact part of my profile I haven't gotten anything from here.
I still think it's funny how people get so bent out of shape over little things. I was once that way too, but not anymore. I don't have TIMe to sweat the small stuff, life is just too damned short for that. Then there are some people who always have a stick up their butt and no matter what, they aren't happy.
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| dan p. |
Posted - 12/02/2006 : 2:15:23 PM
i've never gotten any sort of spam from here at all. |
| GuitarGuy305 |
Posted - 12/02/2006 : 1:43:47 PM
I have gotten a few spam messages that appear to come from people on the board, but the names are usually one letter off or something. Then again, I also get messages from names that are the same or similar to other friends I have that I email or IM occasionally, but not often. I find that very strange. When I went on my cruise, I had over 400 messages in my Spam folder when I got back.
On the porn/spam connection topic, I don't frequent porn sites, and I'm honestly rarely on the computer at all, yet I still get TONS of spam mail. Luckily it's all filtered out so I don't have to deal with it apart from cliking "empty spam". |
| Silky The Pimp |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 11:54:57 PM
Hey Evergreen. Still doing green things... uhhh... ever?
Anyway, what are some good porn sites these days from those of you who do the whole internet porn deal? I've been out of the porn loop for a while since the advent of bit torrent, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN...
...I have no idea what I mean. |
| sb1975 |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 10:23:44 PM
I also got a spam E-mail from this board and it was one of those Nigerian scam's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud ) The user that sent it to me was "desmond36". If anyone would like see it i still have the e-mail saved. and it looks like i'm not the only one who was contacted by this person (or computer) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=desmond36&btnG=Google+Search
I use Gmail and I never get spam in my inbox so i got it not because of my spam filter not deleting it. The real problem is the board and how it is designed. I'm a member of many message board and none of them get as much spam as this one does. but having said that I still love coming to the board. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 9:52:08 PM
yeah, i mean, i'm not bashing porn or anything. i couldn't rightly sit here and tell you i've never looked at it. but you know something? even if i didn't, i wouldn't get super pissed if someone suggested i do. all i'm saying is porn sites do tend to carry that sort of shit.
i didn't want to say it, pjk. in fact i intentionally held back, because it didn't seem like it'd be constructive. but i'm glad you brought it up. i've heard the old "i used to come here but i don't because [whatever reason]" evergreen, page, lovetoday, xar, and that guy that tried to fight fluffy. all have said something to that effect. and every time i have to wonder "what are they trying to accomplish? do they expect me to feel bad?" oh, you're not coming back to the boards. what a blow the community. this may sound crass, but it is what it is: who fucking cares? i don't. i don't have any emotional stake in these people's posts. if you can't take a joke, or if you get offended that easily, fine. get out. i got no time for people like that, anyway. i mean, in the case evergreen, or xar, something could be said, because they actually contributed. i still don't care really, but it's noteworthy. as for these other ones it doesn't matter. they never contributed anyway. |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 7:52:56 PM
quote:
PS: I peep plenty of porn, and have never in 10 years of having my own computer, had a virus. Don't blame the adult film industry for the sick minds of computer programmers!
Now that was funny! LOL Hey,I don't care what anyone says, I love you guys! |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 6:07:37 PM
Taunts for all! |
| jsemon2 |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 5:29:31 PM
this is a weird thread. and jared is just joking, he wished he had a hard ass.
and by the way, i am the shit, not jared. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 4:46:53 PM
Yes! I'm not a cock.
PS: I peep plenty of porn, and have never in 10 years of having my own computer, had a virus. Don't blame the adult film industry for the sick minds of computer programmers!  |
| Arthen |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 3:55:13 PM
A few comments, on my part:
I agree with Pam's assesment that the board has been friendlier in these recent few months.
I believe it was clear that you were making a joke Dan, it definitely does not warrant the old chestnut: "Shut up Dan P. you cock." (or however it went)
I believe that we do have a community and a family on this board, albeit at times dysfunctional, however that is only natural. I have enjoyed meeting a few of the TR Task Force Members at concerts, particularly Kev Lesko, and look forward to meeting more. It's a pet dream of mine to make it over an east coast run of shows and meet another part of the board, Hopeful, PJK, Dave, etc. In terms of internet communication, people like Hopeful and John Semon have been extremely friendly and responsive. I've gotten Genesis stuff from Hopeful and TR/ME stuff from John Semon, simply be emailing and setting up a B&P. It's a great community to get music and information from, I've never dealt with someone on this board who was hoarding it all to themselves or unwilling to share.
We are a group of people with strong and differing opinions, to be sure, yet I think, as Pam stated, we are doing a better job of separating discussions from people and ideas. Perhaps to remain around this board you have to be thick-skinnes and you definitely can't take remarks and jokes personally, but I find that to be the case with life.
Anyways, I found the characterization of our board a bit unfair and uneven, but that's her belief and she's entitled to it. Well, there's my two cents. |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 3:30:18 PM
Well there went another misguided soul! sheeesh What is wrong with people? The porn comment was an obvious joke! Some people are way too serious and really need to get a life. Hopefully Heather will be happy in her other "friendly boards." I certainly hope before she left that she changed the "contact response" to NO therefore eliminating any junk mail from the spammers who get on this board.
Again, dan, you didn't do anything wrong. Ya can't please everyone and if people want to come here fine, if they don't like us, fine, then leaving is the thing to do. What makes me kind of laugh is when people say things like "this is the worst board" or "I know why I don't come here" because I wonder if they think they are hurting anyone or that anyone cares. You have to be a pretty solid member here first before anyone would care if you left. Sorry to sound mean, but what a stupid reaction and all because of spam.
Lets send this topic to the bottom.......... |
| dan p. |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 3:09:25 PM
"I took GREAT offense at his comment that I would be visiting porn sites, first of all."
. . .i was kidding. why would i assume you visit porn sites when i don't know you? or, more importantly, why would i care? when i said "stay off the porn sites. seriously." it was a joke, but also, because again i don't know you, it seemed entirely possible that you did, in fact, go to porn sites. i'm not saying that you to do, but, you know, it seemed like it was possible for someone i don't know to visit a porn site. after all, people do look at porn. but, you are getting pretty defensive about it. . . |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 1:33:54 PM
I think we should start a thread of spammers board handles, and then have Fluffy remove them or ban their IPs.
'Great offense,' gimme a break. That's the world's problem today, everyone takes themselves WAY too seriously. |
| LoveToday |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 12:48:40 PM
I used to come here a lot but like others I got slammed by some ignorant bitchy chick who didnt like my choice of words. Too bad because I really enjoyed the conversations and topics here. Seemed like real people with real insightful opinions. So now I visit and read but dont post unless it seems important like this issue here. The board member who sent me that spamail was named Love30. |
| LoveToday |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 12:41:31 PM
Yup getting them too. Frigging lame. |
| page0178 |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 12:39:25 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hopeful Rolling Waves
I don't think Dan's first post was too incendiary, actually.
Are you kidding me? I took GREAT offense at his comment that I would be visiting porn sites, first of all. He does not know me at all and has no right to ever accuse me of such a thing. Second of all, if he would have actually read my first post, he would have seen that I had commented that I was only trusting because the e-mail had come from this board, I do not normally open e-mail from people whom I do not know.
Regardless, I will not be visiting this board anymore. I will converse with Fluffy directly for updates. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 11:01:33 AM
I don't think Dan's first post was too incendiary, actually. |
| page0178 |
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 10:54:24 AM
Normally I am just a outsider looking in...an observer if you will. But, I thought I would start this thread because I had been "spammed" by someone on this board and wanted to know if others were receiving the same e-mails, and warn of them if they had not.
For what it's worth, and I'm not trying to single anyone out or embarrass anyone, this board is probably the worst board I've been to. Only because it seems that everyone is against everyone else. I'm a member of several others and it seems that all the board members are friends with one another....I even have some myspace friends from other boards. That's just one reason why I do not visit this board anymore. I do not know the other person's reason, but that may be it as well. We are all TR fans in here, why do we all continue to act rude to each other? I mean, within my first 3 posts on this board, I was "attacked" by a rude member. That sure does turn a lot of people off. |
| PJK |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 10:22:12 PM
hey dan, for what it's worth, I didn't think you deserved the lashing you got.
It would really be nice if people asked themselves what their intention is when writing certain things on this board. If the intention is to be mean and hateful or overly sarcastic in order to embarrass or humiliate someone, it would really be better if it's not written. Writing a bunch of negative statements and adding an LOL after it, isn't changing the fact that what was said was said with the clear purpose of being nasty. I think this board has really been quite good the past 3-4 months with little to no negative comments. I think we were doing a pretty damned good job of attacking topics, not people.
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| dan p. |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 5:05:12 PM
and why is it that you don't come here? because you ream people out when they're giving advice to someone who needs it, and then you get pissed when that person says something to you about it? because, i mean, that's exactly what happened right here. does your conduct often make you not want visit places? for christ's sake, how would you expect me to respond to that?
if my advice seemed condescending, that's because not getting viruses is real simple. and i'm sure page0178 really appreciates you leaping to her rescue and saving her from a mean internet message board guy, because god knows she can't do it herself, right? well done. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 11:59:04 AM
Yeah, I just use gmail, and it seems to kill those malicious sons-of-bitches. |
| Evergreen |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 11:23:37 AM
oh...... and i just remembered why i don't come here anymore.
some things change
some things never change |
| Evergreen |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 11:11:36 AM
quote:
HEY EVERGREEN!!!! How are you!?
hey, things are pretty all right.lovesick and silly these days. always a good thing. didn't see any live shows this summer except for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals a couple times in the new england area. ROCKIN band. I did climb 14 Adirondack mountains and hiked hundreds of miles in the woods since april this year though. Hence not many concerts....LOL... thanx for asking and saying "HI" !!! Hope your awesome too! Glad you got to see TR recently.
HRW, the emails went to one of my yahoo accts. Which has pretty good filters.....at least it has in the past. nothing got to my gmail acct. my computer has more protection than fort knox (required with all my porn surfing of course) and the virus' were zapped but it still bugged me since the idiots fished me out of all the members here and i wasn't current here. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 10:48:40 AM
LMAO |
| dan p. |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 10:44:10 AM
wow, you really showed me. way to go. especially that "no shit sherlock" thing. if you don't want to be considered a fucking idiot, i'd suggest not acting like one. LOL! |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 09:36:46 AM
Yeah, sounds to me like Evergreen's got a shitball email service, no offense, but this day in age, any ISP or internet mail service should be filtering out anything spam-ish, especially with viral content.
What email server do you have? |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 01:12:39 AM
Well, I'm using hotmail, and I havn't gotten anything. Not even in the junk folder. |
| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 5:59:08 PM
HEY EVERGREEN!!!! How are you!?
I don't get ANY emails from this board.
Of course... the email I have on the profile is not really my email....
maybe someone gets spam emails for me from this board. Sucker. |
| page0178 |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 4:38:43 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Evergreen
quote:
don't open shit from people you don't know.
no SHIT sherlock!
quote:
example: if i get something in my mailbox that says something about this board, and it has an attachment, i don't open it unless someone here has specifically told me, "dan, i'm going to give you an email."
how the hell would one get that message when they haven't been on this site in a long time???
quote:
if i don't recognize the name or address, and it gets through the robust screen of filters i have erected, it gets deleted.
how nice for you. I think by now we all know about computer protection aids. they don't ALL go to the delete file.
quote:
stay off the porn sites. seriously.
seriously, maybe you'd loosen up if you frequented them more often. Try some of the bondage, S&M ones, you'd look smashing wearing a leather collar and leash.
maybe you were trying to be helpful but it didn't really appear that way. patronizing more like. were not fucking idiots.
peace...............LOL
hehehehehe |
| PJK |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 3:26:27 PM
Yes, I got them too. I hated to do it but I ended up putting "No" in my profile for contacts. Since then, no more emails. I was pretty pissed off too as the name I got said something about "luv" in the name and I thought "I don't know this screen name," but dummy that I am I opened it because it said from this message board! I didn't get any virus though, actually, I might have, but my computer software took it off.
I really sympathize with the rest of you, especially you, Evergreen. I would be even more pissed if I got them and didn't frequent this board any more. |
| Evergreen |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 2:56:47 PM
quote:
don't open shit from people you don't know.
no SHIT sherlock!
quote:
example: if i get something in my mailbox that says something about this board, and it has an attachment, i don't open it unless someone here has specifically told me, "dan, i'm going to give you an email."
how the hell would one get that message when they haven't been on this site in a long time???
quote:
if i don't recognize the name or address, and it gets through the robust screen of filters i have erected, it gets deleted.
how nice for you. I think by now we all know about computer protection aids. they don't ALL go to the delete file.
quote:
stay off the porn sites. seriously.
seriously, maybe you'd loosen up if you frequented them more often. Try some of the bondage, S&M ones, you'd look smashing wearing a leather collar and leash.
maybe you were trying to be helpful but it didn't really appear that way. patronizing more like. were not fucking idiots.
peace...............LOL
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| dan p. |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 2:31:17 PM
easy ways to not get viruses:
don't open shit from people you don't know. example: if i get something in my mailbox that says something about this board, and it has an attachment, i don't open it unless someone here has specifically told me, "dan, i'm going to give you an email." if i don't recognize the name or address, and it gets through the robust screen of filters i have erected, it gets deleted.
stay off the porn sites. seriously. |
| Evergreen |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 1:50:18 PM
Hi Heather, yup....getting about a billion of them myself and i'm
F*%^$ing flamed. I don't even come here anymore. just came today to see if anyone else is having this problem because in the subject line it said something about this website. 'Virus city' in all the emails I've been getting.I reported all mine to the states attorney general. recommend you do it too for whichever state your in. Mine was quite interested due to the banking scam it involved. also,I changed my email on this site to a bogus one. a little late this time, but hey...........
rock on |
| page0178 |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 11:45:35 AM
That's good that y'all aren't getting them....just beware that they are floating around. |
| tericee |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 11:28:38 AM
I haven't gotten any of those, but it sucks that the BOARD has been used by spammers that way.  Yahoo! Mail automatically deletes attachments that have viruses though, so that might be why I haven't gotten any... |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 10:06:28 AM
I haven't...yet. |
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