Freelancers Forum Messages on Friday December 1st 2000

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 21:22

Hi Lindsey, good luck! I had Hackers trying to break into my site, AT&T basically sent me to the FBI (confirming of course that they take these things VERY seriously), how much chance do you have t...

RE: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 20:27

how can I subscribe to this list? -----Original Message----- From: BandWidth [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: 01 December 2000 16:59 To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Subject: Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick Well Mat, someone els...

Re: FN-FORUM South West Meeting

date posted 1st December 2000 19:47

well I'm on the Isle of Wight... is that South east or west - I never remember... either way, I'd be up for meeting. C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon H" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVE...

Re: FN-FORUM South West Meeting

date posted 1st December 2000 19:43

Count me in, this time we're in Wales eh, Regards Damian Thomas http://www.thomaswebdesign.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon H" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Friday, Decembe...

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 19:35

>Thats only cos your new... >wait till you've been using it for 3 months.... >Kif There's options in the latest versions to prevent you receiving messages from anyone except those already authorised...

Re: FN-FORUM $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 19:07

At 17:00 01/12/00 , you wrote: >Ive found what seems to be the trouble or rather I have found out what seems >to be going wrong. IM just at a total loss as to what it all means. > >Everything worked...

South West Meeting

date posted 1st December 2000 19:06

Which reminds me, anyone up for a South West meeting? :o) Jon H Freelance Designer [EMAIL REMOVED] designdojo.com | design resource |computercreative.com affiliate| > -----Original Message-----...

RE: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 19:05

Hmmmm ... I've had ICQ since it came out (a year or two), but I don't seem to get *any* junk anymore. Was bad initially though. Jon H Freelance Designer [EMAIL REMOVED] designdojo.com | design reso...

Re: dirty trick (only worse)

date posted 1st December 2000 18:05

--Its quite common to receive emails with subjects "Your invoice" or "About the question you asked" or something like that, and then some pron site leading from it. You cant do anything about it. O...

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 17:56

> Thats only cos your new... > wait till you've been using it for 3 months.... > Kif I've had it for about 6 months! Ema _____________ www.BW3.co.uk [EMAIL REMOVED] ----- Original Message ----- F...

London Meeting

date posted 1st December 2000 17:55

Any plans for a freelancers meet up in London in the near future? sm....

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 17:46

Thats only cos your new... wait till you've been using it for 3 months.... Kif ----- Original Message ----- From: BandWidth [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:58...

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 17:37

--============_-1236430750==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" On 1/12/00, Lindsey Hill wrote about 'FN-FORUM dirty trick': >Anyone else had this email? W...

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 17:07

Well Mat, someone else on this list introduced me to AOL's instant messaging whatsname and it seems much better as you don't get any uninvited guests/messages and you can see who's online when you ar...

$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 17:05

Ive found what seems to be the trouble or rather I have found out what seems to be going wrong. IM just at a total loss as to what it all means. Everything worked fine when called from a standard ht...

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 16:59

Yes, it is the same with me. ICQ messages are really getting out of hand - with links to porn sites and chain messages becoming a common occurence, so I might have to take the same action as you Ema....

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 16:48

Of the last six emails I've received from the Freelancer's list, five of them were HTML/styled text. Is this a record? Are we not doing anything about this anymore? -- Best wishes, Paul http://w...

RE: FN-FORUM $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 16:46

Oops I forget to incude the url I linked to the script from. http://www.strangelogic.com/envtest.html and the output there works as it should. SERVER_SOFTWARE ----> Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) (Red Hat/L...

RE: FN-FORUM $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 16:43

At 16:07 01/12/00 , you wrote: >It all seems to working ok except the damn referrer. Am I right in saying >that in fact I should be looking at my browser rather than the server as >everything looks...

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 16:39

dirty trickI've uninstalled ICQ because of this problem. It seemed like everyday someone was sending me links to porn sites that I got so fed up in the end, i deleted it!! Ema _____________ www.BW3....

Re: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 16:25

At 15:46 01/12/00 , you wrote: Anyone else had this email? What a low down, cheap trick. I've had 2 emails today from [EMAIL REMOVED] with the subject 'info requested' on it. it makes you...

RE: FN-FORUM $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 16:13

Are other environment variables being set? What output do you get from this CGI script: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/plain "; for (keys %ENV) { print "$_ ----> $ENV{$_}...

RE: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 16:13

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dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 16:10

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RE: FN-FORUM dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 15:59

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dirty trick

date posted 1st December 2000 15:56

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RE: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 15:50

Yup have to agree again, but what TV radio etc do is to provide branding as well as promotion for a specific widget service or widget product. The branding helps no end in converting the traffic tha...

Re: FN-FORUM $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 15:50

At 14:50 01/12/00 , you wrote: >I hope someone with some *nix knowledge can help please. > >Im coding up a script that depends on the $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} CGI >environment variable and I've been hav...

Re: FN-FORUM Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 15:17

This will sound a bit mental but I have in the past had problems where sites involving certain HTML configuration on certain browsers will goble up PC resources. This effect was ussually commutative,...

Re: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 15:17

I agree most / all sites do not look to the future at all, its a case of "lets get it up there", then they wonder why they hav'nt made millions.....nowadays all medium to large sites need proffesiona...

RE: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 15:06

Thankyou Martin that's the one :) -- Jason Duke |Tel: +44 7050 802831 Founder | One Eye | Fax: +44 7050 802832 [EMAIL REMOVED] Looking Forward With Dedi...

RE: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 14:56

Field of Dreams Martin Kellie Dream Weavers Home ICQ: 11219980 -----Original Message----- From: Jason Duke [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: 01 December 2000 15:51 To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Su...

$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 14:55

I hope someone with some *nix knowledge can help please. Im coding up a script that depends on the $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} CGI environment variable and I've been having problems. Upon further investig...

RE: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 14:50

Couldn't have put it better myself Mike. But then again if a client pays for a website and doesnt look longer term for the promotional aspects then (ie - getting the developer to keep the IP's up to...

RE: FN-FORUM Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 14:29

> close in, otherwise they're just ignored. 50% is fine because the > graphic in the > middle forces them out. Cheers, I'll change that. > Is it crash errors your looking for? Any errors in Netsca...

Re: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 14:24

Great offer of a free script.......but, and a BIG BUT, unless you keep on top of these IP addresses..... you can kiss you site goodbye......banned....end of story. This sort of cloaking / IP delive...

Re: FN-FORUM Windows 2000 Hosting

date posted 1st December 2000 13:49

www.xtml.co.uk provide customized hosting to spec. Not cheap though and Manchester based. Very secure though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Stowell" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED]...

Re: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 13:06

> for a site involving frames. How do you go about metatagginf framed sites > effectively? well if you put a little java at the top of every page to detect if it surrounded by the correct frame elem...

Re: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 12:56

frames cause problems for the crawlers, so you could get rid of them, or provide links in the section for the crawlers to find the rest of your site - tricky to get to work well though :-( Kind Reg...

RE: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 12:53

Frames (if used well) can be a godsend for search engines for the very same reason that many people despise them as regard to search engine ranking. Many search engines will traverse a site and have...

Re: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 12:49

Use the tag for your content Contact me off list if you need more help Mike [EMAIL REMOVED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "kate goss" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Friday, Decem...

Re: FN-FORUM Windows 2000 Hosting

date posted 1st December 2000 12:46

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00CF_01C05B92.C0DCC2E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Can I suggest ge...

Re: FN-FORUM Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 12:32

No crash problems on 4.6. 1024x768 - You do have a tiny table error on your message board. The black background dips into the white on either side of the header graphic (by about 100 px on each side)...

RE: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 12:19

not much help but I would get rid of the frames -----Original Message----- From: kate goss [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: 01 December 2000 11:51 To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Subject: FN-FORUM metatags for framed sit...

metatags for framed sites

date posted 1st December 2000 11:59

hi everyone. I have recently been asked to improve search engine rankings for a site involving frames. How do you go about metatagginf framed sites effectively? ____________________________________...

Windows 2000 Hosting

date posted 1st December 2000 11:53

Hi all Can anyone recommend a good ISP who can provide and host the following: Windows 2000 IIS 5.x Business Logic Server SQL 2000 Server We are hopefully after someone who can procure the machine...

RE: FN-FORUM Web Site Load Testing Tools

date posted 1st December 2000 11:49

Thanks to everyone who answered my posting on load testing. The reason for using Mercury Interactive is that our clients' client (the end user in effect) has a dedicated load runner team who we coul...

Re: FN-FORUM Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 11:09

Jon It loaded up to initializing the java for the banner ad then Netscape quit. That was NS4.7 on iMac 8.6 -- Lindsey Hill www.apperleydesign.co.uk ---------- >From: "Jon H" [EMAIL REMOVED] >To:...

Attention - warning

date posted 1st December 2000 10:35

This is to warn anyone who might have seen an ad for high-spec laptops (Sony Vaio X29) through Loot online or the hard-copy this week and is thinking about following it up. A friend of mine phoned t...

RE: FN-FORUM website check

date posted 1st December 2000 09:52

Hi Lindsey, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lindsey Hill [EMAIL REMOVED] > To: [EMAIL REMOVED] > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:59 PM > Subject: FN-FORUM website check > > > > Hi > > > >...

Re: FN-FORUM Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 09:35

Not so, check http://pub31.ezboard.com/bdesigndojo Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon H" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:49 AM Subje...

artists and designers needed to participate in my website

date posted 1st December 2000 09:34

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01C05B78.AEC4A560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nice looking sit...

Re: FN-FORUM Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 09:12

Hi Jon, It sort of works. I get the message 'Network Error:Connection reset by peer Try connecting again' on the home page but if I ignore the message it works most times which is about as good as it...

RE: FN-FORUM Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 09:09

Works fine in NN4.7 on win NT 4 Workstation.... Also fine on NN 6.0 on NT 4 Workstation... Morgan...

Re: FN-FORUM Distant clients

date posted 1st December 2000 07:51

In a message dated 30/11/2000 17:57:26 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL REMOVED] writes: > I have had 7 payments to date of which 6 are curren...

Re: FN-FORUM Director 6 Training Manual

date posted 1st December 2000 04:47

No PDF was shipped on the production CD I just checked. Maybe it shipped on the 6.5 update disc? There are PDF versions of the 7 and 8 manuals available on the macromedia site http://www.macromedia...

Netscape Test

date posted 1st December 2000 01:58

Arrrrrg ..... Can anyone see http://www.designdojo.com via Netscape? Or is it just me not working? If not, take a look at it with IE (which of course is fine). Where am I going wrong? I've cleaned u...

Re: FN-FORUM Distant clients

date posted 1st December 2000 00:53

Damian, My bank (nationawide) cashes US dollar cheques without a blink, and usually within 5/6 days. I lose about £12 in charges Kif ----- Original Message ----- From: Damian Thomas [EMAIL REM...