Posted by Steve on 10/13/40 12:00

"Daniel Ennis" <daniel@fanetworks.net> wrote in message
news:02cde92b$0$21714$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> 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?

no, to protect the person defined in said 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.

you mean, what kind of things could be done with that information? lots.
and, the difference with usenet is that it is generally a breeding grounds
for flame wars. there is a lot of incentive to invoke some very nasty things
on a person who has pissed you off. finally, most of the nastier stuff i can
think of doing, i can do at arm's reach just using the internet.

> 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?

is that why? hmmm, i never thought of that. :)

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

i can *absolutely* run an online website and be 100% anonymous...unless you
can compel my isp to give you account information linked with my ip address.

> 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.

you're very naive.

> 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...

totally naive.

>>> 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.

yep...and trolling can be fun. plus, fred provides much food and to such a
degree that others can't help but chuckle.

> 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.

not as efficient if the operation is in a loop and/or if the array is of
substance, i.e. large. still, for this example, good call.

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