Webmaster Forum / General / Web Design / March 2005

Just received an email with the following offer:
Package #1. A database of 500 million! Email addresses with Bulk Email
Sending Software for only $400.
Is there a way to send these people to jail ?

Anyone know of a "security squad" type of organization? Kind of
like the BBS for the web, only with a bit of extortion thrown in :-(
Here is a bit of context:
Say I'm an enlightened online shopper, I see something I want.

Is there a windows xp news reader that will let me block on the
NNTP-Posting-Host?

I can't get to any of my hostgator hosted sites or Hostgator.com
itself. Does anyone know for sure if this is related to The Planet
going down. I am fairly sure Hostgator uses The Planet.
Does anyone know what is going on over there in Texas with The Planet

I need some advice about what to do about cybersquatters. Is this the right
place to ask, or can you recommend a more relevant newsgroup?
Thanks.
ally

i run several sites and would like for them to share a page hosted on a
third site.  id like to simply embed the page into pages on each site
without using frames (sorta like a inter-domain SSI if possible).
so, is it possible?  thanks in advance for any tips.

Do Adsense blocks reduce the pagerank of the pages where they are
located ?

greetings group!
anyone doing any online educational or distance learning stuff lately? how
about websites for disabled children?
i'd love to trade notes.

I'm looking for an example of RFP for a corporate Web site with private and
public area.
RFP will include design, implementation, and hosting of the site.I'm hoping
that someone can help me in this issue.

We were talking the other day about advertising websites by shouting from a
street corner.
This on ebay made me laugh:
http://tinyurl.com/6bs37

I'm redevloping one of my sites which will contain things like french
characters ... So, what should I set my MySQL database to?  For some reason,
my newly setup localhost databases set the collation to  latin1_swedish_ci,
however I have manually set this to utf8_general_ci on ...

Why do people add stupid loud songs or voice sound files to their pages?
Anyone else blcok these sites when they reach them?
Me? I add them to my HOSTS file as 127.0.0.1 so I never see them again. I
cant support a site thats made by someone who doesnt care about others.

Does anyone have a way to stop spam bots getting the e-mail address in a
form ?
TIA
Laurie Flack

My browser (Fresco) honours the sizes of text entry fields correctly
but most browsers on other platforms fail miserably. For instance:
<input type="text" name="name" size=40><br>
<textarea name="address" cols=40 rows=6></textarea>

Hey There,
We are not a new company but finally have an updated website online.
The company name is TreeFrog Solutions and we do website design and
development as well as other online services. We would appreciate your