Posted by Daniel Ennis on 10/15/52 12:00

Steve wrote:

>> Um, are you 12? Welcome to the internet. Whois records isn't nothing
>> special...
>
> no, but putting traceable information out on the internet in usenet is just
> asking for trouble. in a way, i'm warning him not to be stupid...despite his
> ignorance to all other such warnings to date.
>

So we should not provide any link to the websites we are affiliated with
on the newsgroups, nor provide any link to test pages etc? all to
protect our whois data?

What kind of trouble is it really? Is some random usenet junkie going to
travel across states to cuss at me or the original poster for what is
on our site? How is a usenet ANY different than posting your website url
ANYWHERE on the internet? Usenet does not give you 'extra information'
from a whois result. It's no different than posting a url in your
signature of a forum, top link site, anything.

People build websites to be found and viewed. And here you are saying
you should NOT want people to know about your website. Do you even know
how the internet works?

You can not run an online website and expect to be 100% anonymous, nor
do you need to be.

BILLIONS of websites have whois information showing there personal
details. so millions of people are stupid for posting their website URL?
I really do not understand what you are getting at.

My email is a clear link to my web address (while its not my address, I
live 5 minutes away). Am I suppose to use a fake email address so people
wont find my site? Oh wait... no point in even running my site if people
don't find it...

>> And your trying to attack this guy for no reason, just because he wants to
>> auto play a php file?... You need to grow up, or leave the internet.
>
> no, it revolves around another thread. and, as the good professor still
> can't RTFM or think creatively, i'll continue to harrass him.
>

Ok, so you have a personal dislike of the OP from another post. Bringing
your problems to another thread is what we call 'trolling'. Grow up.

To the OP:

You may also use

<?php echo array_rand(array('sound1.wav','sound2.wav','sound3.wav')); ?>

That outputs a random entry from an array, and much simpler code than
anything shown above and gets the job done.



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Daniel Ennis
faNetworks.net - Quality Web Hosting and Ventrilo Services
System Administrator / Web Developer
PHP Developer for 6 years
daniel@fanetworks.net

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