Beaubourg wrote:For what it's worth, I see this as perhaps the beginning of the end for the forum. (Admins, I'm sure, aren't going to want to deal with this on a steady basis - and who knows what those links are doing to infect this site/db.)
If he's too busy, a controversial thing could be to ban all email adresses, which will stop anyone applying for membership, but also stop the spam immediately, and then make a forum member a moderator to stop flame wars.
Beaubourg wrote:For what it's worth, I see this as perhaps the beginning of the end for the forum. (Admins, I'm sure, aren't going to want to deal with this on a steady basis - and who knows what those links are doing to infect this site/db.)
If he's too busy, a controversial thing could be to ban all email adresses, which will stop anyone applying for membership, but also stop the spam immediately, and then make a forum member a moderator to stop flame wars.
There haven't been any any flame wars so far and when there are the admin can moderate them.
Beaubourg wrote:For what it's worth, I see this as perhaps the beginning of the end for the forum. (Admins, I'm sure, aren't going to want to deal with this on a steady basis - and who knows what those links are doing to infect this site/db.)
If he's too busy, a controversial thing could be to ban all email adresses, which will stop anyone applying for membership, but also stop the spam immediately, and then make a forum member a moderator to stop flame wars.
There haven't been any any flame wars so far and when there are the admin can moderate them.
And lets hope that we dont get any
I knew i spoke to soon
Last edited by epsilon75 on Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
after reading this thread I can't get that bloody song out of my head...'spam! spam! spam! spam!....lovely spam!...wonderfull spam spam spam spam......'
You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink...but if you get it to float's on it's back then you've got something...
I used to rilly enjoy a salad with a couple of thick slices of spam, placed just so on de plate with a dollop of pick ul
also my schule I attended in between bunking off in the early '70's did a superb spam fritter luncheon (see recipe unnerneath). Many kiddies hated them and binned them in the pigswill bin....But we used to retrieve them, dry them out and use them as weapons against the toffs from the local GraMMar schule.
BM
recip:
SPAMTM fritters
This traditional fritter recipe comes from the 'SPAM COOKBOOK' by Marguerite Patten.
125ml/4 fl oz (half cup) Milk, or milk and water, or water, or beer*
METHOD
1. Mix together all the batter ingredients in a bowl. The mixture should be thick, in the proportions given above, in order to coat the SPAM® well. Cut the SPAM® into 8 slices.
2.Meanwhile, heat 2-3 tablespoons oil in a frying pan or wok, or heat a depth of oil in a deep-fryer to 170oC/340oF or until a cube of day-old bread turns golden in 1 minute.
3. Coat the SPAM® slices once or twice with the batter then drop them into the cold oil. If shallow frying allow 2-3 minutes on each side; if deep frying allow a total cooking time of 3-4 minutes, turning over the fritters as required. Drain on kitchen paper. Serve with mash.
*Colin, please advise type of BOOZE
** pleeze note: spam is a registered trademark (I was advised by my Culinary Legal Team)
There is always the security code sign up doofer that prevents machines "registering" on many sites. Can't be too hard to incorporate that in the sign up procedure, shirley?