We are under attack!

[Christy Carol]

Dont feed the spammer!! :x


Elfworks to the rescue! Someone give that lady a raise!! :D

[Ervserver]

she works miracles :???:

[elfworks]

i have banned him but i need some help here erv. call or aim NEED HELP !!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!


XO

[Ervserver]

I deleted all I could find, see any more?

[elfworks]

he had 25 posts when i banned him. do you think you deleted that many?? :D

xo

[Ervserver]

my delete finger is very warm to the touch and the hair is is singed off

[Christy Carol]

all that work just to be deleted...why even bother??

Scrooge!!!!

[dominick]

Good work guys. 8)

[Ervserver]

dominick I hear Galena has a real nice Christmas light display, ever been there?

[dominick]

I haven't. It's a bit of a hike from here (about 4 hours). In fact, I hadn't heard anything about their decorating until now. Did you have friends pass through or something?

[Ervserver]

was there in the summer, there are many civil war era mansions there. I saw a brochure where they really decorate up the town and mansions for Christmas. There are walking tours, parade, etc.

[mrshamm]

I must have missed the spammer :o

[ReineV]

yea me too! it sounded like a lot of drama went down.

[Ervserver]

Elfworks was on top of it, no worries

[elfworks]

erv did the hard work deleting all the spam posts!

xo

[Ervserver]

Hard work....ERV? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[dominick]

Looks like we got another one. :x

[dvdelf]

i was keepin an eye on a newbie last night, signed up then didnt post

[dominick]

I saw like four or so posts that had something to do with Shakira (sp?) in random sections of the board. Definitely spam. I'm usually up a bit later than the majority of the board.

[elfworks]

where, dominick? did you delete?

xo

[Ervserver]

good to have the night shift covered, is it just me or does the internet seem to run faster late at night / very early morning ?

[dominick]

where, dominick? did you delete?

xo

Nope, I didn't delete them. Didn't have the chance to. They were scattered in different sections.

I think the board runs faster at night and the morning because there are far fewer people browsing. It gets kinda lonely 'round these parts at 2 am. :lol:

[Ervserver]

I keep a Walkman next to my bed and when I can't sleep I listen to Christmas music, Andy Williams puts me right out :-D

[dvdelf]

I took care of the Shakira spammer

[Ervserver]

good job :-)

[dominick]

Is it just me, or has the board been really slow recently? I wonder if there's any correlation to the recent spamming activity.

[Ervserver]

I noticed it really slow at times yesterday. In my humble opinion it's due to work load at the host server. As it gets closer to Christmas there will be more traffic, expect more slow downs.

[dominick]

The Shakira guy/bot/entity was back last night and this morning. I think I got a total of eight posts by two users. :-? What do these guys hope to accomplish? Do they really think people browsing a Christmas forum are going to click on their purported inappropriate links?

[dvdelf]

apparently they do

[Ervserver]

The Shakira guy/bot/entity was back last night and this morning. I think I got a total of eight posts by two users. :-? What do these guys hope to accomplish? Do they really think people browsing a Christmas forum are going to click on their purported inappropriate links?

nobody has ever said a bot had to be intelligent

[dvdelf]

hence posting that junk here

[elfworks]

MAJOR THANKS to all who helped out while i was laid out with the flu!!

i couldnt have donw it without yall!!!

fever broke this morning. long as i dont eat anything crazy... i think my tummy will hold out too!

xo

[dominick]

:???:
Good to have you back at full capacity.

[elfworks]

well... full capacity might be a bit of an overstatement!

xo

[dominick]

I still won't take back my :???:

:D

[Ervserver]

Wonder who will watch the place on the holiday...dominick? elfworks? everyone will be eating turkey.

[dominick]

Nope, I'll be here on and off plenty. Certain members of the family are only good in low doses, so I'll be looking to duck out every half hour or so. 8-)

[Ervserver]

8-) i hear ya there. I'll be around later in the day and night. I could see some foreign spammers taking advantage of the day. I'm on several other forums and have had some of my busiest times on holidays

[dominick]

No worries, I'll have my eye on the place.

[Ervserver]

maybe aunt Gert can fix your plate and deliver to your computer

[dominick]

:lol: I'm going to have to be down there at some point, I'm cooking the turkey this year! The digital probe thermometer takes the guess work out of it, though, so I don't have to be constantly checking on it.

[Ervserver]

Those digital probe thermometers are nice, and takes the guess work out of cooking. Hate to poison the family with undercooked meat !

[dominick]

Well most of the family, anyway. :lol:

[Ervserver]

:lol: I'm going to have to be down there at some point, I'm cooking the turkey this year! The digital probe thermometer takes the guess work out of it, though, so I don't have to be constantly checking on it.

How is it decided who cooks the turkey?

[dominick]

Well in years past when the whole family gathered at the Grandparent's home it was always my Grandma. Since she sold the house and moved to Florida, we've been having it here and my mom has been cooking it. This year I proclaimed that I will be cooking the turkey, and I think she's just glad she doesn't have to do it.

[Ervserver]

When I was a kid I thought mothers loved doing all the cooking, when i got old enough to cook she seemed eager to pass on the duties

[Christy Carol]

Every year for weeks in advance my mother constantly tells me how she needs my help and what all she needs for me to do on Thanksgiving so I get up early and go over to her house only to sit on the barstool and talk to her most of the morning. Every time I get up or ask what I can do she says "Nothing". Last year I finally starting grabbing stuff and started cooking!

[sheepsnot]

That's all she wanted, you in the same room. I don't even attempt to help in the kitchen because not only is it not my forte, it is dangerous and counterproductive to have me in the room. for one thing, I'm always taking a swig of eggnog, so one hand is tied up in that. Also, I'm still not sure where the stove is. It's not that thing full of dishes, is it?

[dvdelf]

yes

or at my grandmothers house its where she keeps all her important papers. Really

[sheepsnot]

When the IRS shows up, she just nonchalantly turns on the oven as if to bake cookies, and tada! No evidence. Shrewd gramma you have there.

[dvdelf]

yes well when i was cooking the one day she almost lost all her important papers

[dominick]

8-)

[Ervserver]

That's all she wanted, you in the same room. I don't even attempt to help in the kitchen because not only is it not my forte, it is dangerous and counterproductive to have me in the room. for one thing, I'm always taking a swig of eggnog, so one hand is tied up in that. Also, I'm still not sure where the stove is. It's not that thing full of dishes, is it?


When I get to the family Christmas I open the frig and take a swig straight from the new eggnog cartons, this essentially makes them all mine

[dvdelf]

lick all the candycanes?

[Ervserver]

grandma gets the pre-licked ones, cheaper

[dvdelf]

lickastick.com?

[Ervserver]

yes I had to check and see if that was a real link

[dvdelf]

lol, i can make stuff up quick

[sheepsnot]

Because we had so many kids in the family, we had to share candy canes, so I would lick only the red stripe and one of the other kids would get to lick the white stripe. Takes talent, let me tell you.

[Ervserver]

Precision licking