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

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Wed 22 Dec, RavenHawk wrote:
> All you realy need is someone with a web-server who is willing to
> donate space for the cause. And as many people who are intrested
> in Spelljammer, there probably some one who does.

Yes, but I'm not one of the long-timers/regulars here, so I
wouldn't presume to do that myself.

But, if we set up something distributed, I would be happy enough
to have one of the secondary bb sites, once I knock my Linux
set-up into shape.


> Dreamer <dreamer@??????.?????.??.uk> wrote:
> In 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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