Re: Into the Void - bb access - article submission?

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Mon 20 Dec, Dreamer wrote:
> I used to use ezboard, about ten+ months ago, on a regular basis.
>
> Today I tried to login so as to register for the "Into the Void"
> forum that was mentioned here, a little while ago.
>
> The login process has been altered, so that you seem to have to
> give your personal details to at least one of the four
> advertisers that ezboard seem to think you might be interested
> in, just to be able to login!
>
> I am in the UK, and quite a few US advertisers are not of
> interest to me, and I get spammed enough as it is.
>
> Doesn't look as though I am going to be using ezboard anytime
> again soon...
[snip]

OK, I spoke too soon...

It looks as though if I turn on JavaScript and cookies in an
Opera 7 browser and get things just right (I'm not sure, yet, how
to reproduce this), I can login to ezboard, at least to a bb I'm
already registered for, without handing over any rights to first
born children.

So, I hope I didn't upset anyone!

But, they don't seem to be making things as easy as they
should/might do...

I know there is free bb software you can get, like phpbb, and run
it on Windows using ISS, or even Tomcat, I'm told. And, very
likely on Linux as well. All you need then is preferably several
someones with broadband without (low) bandwidth caps, to host
things...  (Several someones, so you can replicate the bb, and if
one site goes down, the others likely keep going.)

I'm working towards a (Linux) setup that should let me do this
sort of thing.


> Cheers!

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