board question

[Phil O]

When I look at someone's profile, one of the things that shows up is:

Enter the middle number 3
please (3).:

What the heck does that mean?

Phil

[MIDI Life Crisis]

James will have to answer that, but I recall a spam prevention routine a while ago that asked for that once and then you were good to go. I don't see that. Maybe your cookies aren't set to be accepted by the board?

[James Steele]

When I look at someone's profile, one of the things that shows up is:

Enter the middle number 3
please (3).:

What the heck does that mean?

Phil

MLC was right. It was an anti-spam measure to stop the kitchen spam bots. I've since employed another method that has been fairly effective and I may delete that now.

[Phil O]

Thanks, James. I'll discard my magic code ring now.

[twistedtom]

I just gave it a try; I went to Phil's profile and no #3. I did see friend, foe buttons when I was there, I cannot think of a single person here I would mark as foe, but I would mark a large number as friend. The only one that came here that I did not care for was a guy named Harley, but he has not been around for some time.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Actually he came back under different names. He emailed me and even called me once. A little over the top and that's coming from MLC!

[Phil O]

I think he may have been back recently. There was a nasty exchange between a new member and Mike Halloran. When I made a simple one word post "Harley?" the thread came to a sudden stop. Dunno.

Phil

[MIDI Life Crisis]

The word has become that scary! People are using it instead of BOO! on Halloween.