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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:48 pm    Post subject: Theoretical Message Board Question Reply with quote

A while back another board I was posting to had a bit of drama. The site's founder and another chief administrator got into an off-line spat and the founder threatened to delete the whole site and message board. The other admin responded by changing the root password to the message board, moving it to a new server, getting a new domain name and blocking the IP of the founder. It was really a mess.

It got me wondering, though--my wife is a moderator on a board where the server is in the founder's house, so the founder and site IP are actually one in the same. What would happen if she blocked the founder's IP? Would the board stay up or crash due to infinite regression caused by the site attempting to blocking itself?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unless he browses the forum from the server, it shouldn't cause a problem. However, if that sort of situation ever becomes necessary, you'll want to put the forum on a new server and domain. In that case, it won't matter at all whether you're blocking his IP. Since he has physical access to the server, he can take control of the forum at any time or simply disconnect it's connection to the internet.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Theoretical Message Board Question Reply with quote

Elwood wrote:
A while back another board I was posting to had a bit of drama. The site's founder and another chief administrator got into an off-line spat and the founder threatened to delete the whole site and message board. The other admin responded by changing the root password to the message board, moving it to a new server, getting a new domain name and blocking the IP of the founder. It was really a mess. ...


Yes, quite a mess indeed! We avoid this problem by keeping our founder (the beloved Sir Lizard) locked up in the State of California, and feeding nothing but tea and biscuits before noon. Shocked

Uh ... whose turn is it to feed him this month anyway???

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're supposed to feed him?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Theoretical Message Board Question Reply with quote

Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote:

Yes, quite a mess indeed! We avoid this problem by keeping our founder (the beloved Sir Lizard) locked up in the State of California, and feeding nothing but tea and biscuits before noon. Shocked


I thought lizards liked to eat insects.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zzzzzzzzz.....huh?....oh..sorry....
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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought he was hooked intravenously to PGGB's and kept in a state of Loonieness..
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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jonnyv wrote:
We're supposed to feed him?


Don't look at me ... it's Mildews turn!


And speaking of His Lizardness, has anyone heard from him recently? Maybe it time we auction off his car again. Wink

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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

His lizardness works for Geico now Confused .



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