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Welcome to the new version of the 'dawlish discussion forum'!? It’s written in dot-net & uses SQL server, so you should find it’s much quicker and hopefully easier to navigate. It also lets you view posts right back to the start of the forum. You can do this by clicking the page numbers at the bottom. I have stopped showing IP addresses now as I think its a bit off-putting, but, of course, they ...
I don't know if it was your post, but one of the posts had an unacceptable and unnecessary amount of offensive language, so I marked the post as 'unavailable', which would have made unavailable all threads below it. Sorry if yours has disappeared, but there has to be a limit, and I really could not be bothered to go through and mask all the swear words. I personally do not want swear words like ...
Yes is was a shame about that as it was a funny post. I responded too quickly to someone's complaint as I was new to hosting forums & a bit naive. The post is still in the database though. I was thinking of having paging on the forum so people can browse old threads.
James & business person. I agree it would be nice to have registered users and we already have the capability on the site (login at the top) of which several people (commercial and non-comercial) have access to. However, I think if we forced users to log on to use the discussion forum, then not many would use it. We are considering our options here, however. You are right, people can mask their ...
And yes I have a different IP address because I am posting this from the dawlish.com server (192.168.xxxx) is reserved for local area networks.
So I take it you are not a solicitor and you are just guessing? It would be more helpful (as I said before) if you could let me know which threads you thought were offensive and should be removed. As far as I can tell none of these threads are illegal: Racism law applies to an idividual, apart from the new laws on 'inciting racial hatred' of which threads I have removed or altered. Something can ...
OK. If you make a list of discussion threads that you think should be removed & everyone agrees (or no one disagrees) then I will be happy to do so.
Here's a good link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address
NOTE: I have modified the wording of this thread as it got a bit 'racist' and so may have changed the truth-value of some of the posts (well, actually all of them). So please don't think the views expressed here are anything to do with the contributors.