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4000 Spammers and counting

webmaster — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:54:57 +0100

4000 spammers and counting - we must be doing something right.

Belief and Disbelief

Join the Retired but Active Team

webmaster — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:15:00 +0100

About Retired but Active

Retired but active is a group of Wiki sites for the over-50s consisting of

Belief and Disbelief

On the nature of spam

webmaster — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:50:03 +0200

As RaA moves from the totally unknown to the 'getting to be known' we have to deal with a completely new issue - spam put on as either comments or guest book entries.

The software is set up so that it won't accept links from casual visitors to other sites. It's a pity to be sure but when it was open we were inundated with opportunities to buy viagra, or to download what in my youth were called 'dirty pictures' so we had to change the settings to prevent it.
In the process we prevented many innocent links but there you go.

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Which Theme is the Better?

webmaster — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:01:32 +0200

* The 'Ad Novus' theme used for www.RetiredandActive.org * The 'Ubiquity' theme used for www.Retiredbutactive.com and www.Lifes3rdPhase.com

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Somebody's Law

webmaster — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:40:40 +0200

Yesterday I was planning to draw up a page on the use of eBay to go onto the 'Trading on the Internet' section of Lifes3rd phase, then when I watched the 6:00pm news on the box, up came two items on eBay.

eBay had been fined some extra-ordinary sum for allowing fake Diors to be sold on the site
That they were also auctioning discounted credit notes from major stores.

Well, of course, no market that wants to remain reputable can allow illegal trading on its patch - and ignorance is no defence - but what does that tell us, the punters.

Retired but Active

The Retired but Active Chat Room

rogerwebb — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:13:22 +0200

Chat Rooms put you in touch with the world

Chat Rooms are for teenagers: True: many Chat Rooms are designed for teenagers and others are dominated by them; Retired but Active Chat Rooms are for members only, and we don't have teenage members.

Group Leadership

rogerwebb — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:31:08 +0200

The success or otherwise of Retired but Active

... in its mission to improve our retirement experience depends on our ability to attract Group Leaders with the time and inclination to explain their own area of interest to others.

Retired but Active

Safety on the Net

rogerwebb — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:37:14 +0200

Every thinking user of the internet is concerned

...about the daily tales of fraud and identity theft: yet the net is perhaps uniquely useful to our generation, allowing us to take part in world-wide movements and to have friends and advisors far from our social physical location.

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