guest users...

[Guest strapper]

i often sit wondering why some come in as a guest...why isnt it only availible to members,its free to join and easy to chat.... why is there a need to be invisible

so why do we have guests?

reason why i ask is banned members can still watch and take advantage of whats been said ...tips /news etc.

cant we abolish guest viewing so then we will have more members??

 

ITS FREE TO JOIN GUESTS SO WHY NOT JOIN! :)

[pjc]

prob a mix of banned members and spy's

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

GOOD POINT  M8 (shrug)(shrug)

[BLACK W F]

probally Bryan mrs  trying to find out how much he is buying birds for lol

[Ian McKay]

Wilma trying to find out how much is left for her to spend :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

 

Knowing Bryan not much ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

NOT THIS ONE ALAN SHE OKAY

 

NOW THE LAST ONE THAT WHOLE OTHER SUBJECT

 

WONT GO THERE JUST THE THOUGHT OF HER ON HERE  SCARES ME (dizzy)(dizzy)(dizzy)

[pjc]

shhhhhhhhhhhhh, you never know who's watching!  :X

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

THAT VERY TRUE IAN YOU KNOW ME BETTER THAN MOST (evil)(evil)

[Guest strapper]

can anyone let us know why we still have guest users?

[BLACK W F]

bryan you still got caravan or did she take it away with here

[joe61]

prob a mix of banned members and spy's

 

aint that a fact pjc   :)

 

oh happy days

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

she took the lot alan went with 2 cases 2 weeks later asked for them back

(puke)(puke)

[BLACK W F]

at least she never come back did you have a party lol

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

still having one l.o.l.

[Guest Greig the doo Drysdale]

off topic pmsl   ;D

[BLACK W F]

at least she left you with your  sence of humour  intact  lol

[Guest strapper]

cmon guys lets keep to the topic :)

[pigeonpete]

cmon guys lets keep to the topic :)

 

Best thing you ever said  

[Guest peter.j]

banned members can still view the boards with there user names as theres been many a time ive looked at the members online and there has been a red name there i think when banned they just cant post...pete

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

ok lets ask the guests why they dont join ?????????????????(shrug)(shrug)(shrug)(shrug)(shrug)

[pigeonpete]

I think guests should be allowed say a week, to browse to see if they want to join, After the week they have to join up or ip should be blocked until they sign up. Just my opinion.

[Guest strapper]

I think guests should be allowed say a week, to browse to see if they want to join, After the week they have to join up or ip should be blocked until they sign up. Just my opinion.

 

a week god you generous..i was thinking more of 24hrs ;D ;D ;D

i think within two days pete they should know wether they want to join or not...this can be a very good site with lots of good points(some bad) but on the whole entertaining.

i knew i wanted to join within 24hrs.

[Guest peter.j]

I think guests should be allowed say a week, to browse to see if they want to join, After the week they have to join up or ip should be blocked until they sign up. Just my opinion.

 

pete this has been discussed before if i live close to you and we both have the same service provider ie aol or b.t if they ban my i.p you would also be banned as internet provider address would be the same.......pete

[pigeonpete]

 

pete this has been discussed before if i live close to you and we both have the same service provider ie aol or b.t if they ban my i.p you would also be banned as internet provider address would be the same.......pete

 

Not quite true pete, all computers have there own uniqiue code for logging in, Everything can be traced to your computer or mine if needed  

[pigeonpete]

a little about ip addresses :-)

 

 

 

Introduction

 

 

 

 

Every machine on the the Internet has a unique number assigned to it, called an IP address. Without a unique IP address on your machine, you will not be able to communicate with other devices, users, and computers on the Internet. You can look at your IP address as if it were a telephone number, each one being unique and used to identify a way to reach you and only you.

 

The Address Itself

 

An IP address always consists of 4 numbers seperated by periods, with the numbers having a possible range of 0 through 255. An example of how an ip address appears is: 192.168.1.10

 

This representation of an IP address is called decimal notation and is what is generally used by humans to refer to an IP address for readability purposes. With the ranges for each number being between 0 and 255 there are a total 4,294,967,296 possible IP addreses.

 

Out of these addresses there are 3 special ranged that are reserved for special purposes. The first is the 0.0.0.0 address and refers to the default network and the 255.255.255.255 address which is called the broadcast address. These addresses are used for routing, which will not be covered in this tutorial. The third address, 127.0.0.1, is the loopback address, and refers to your machine. Whenever you see, 127.0.0.1, you are actually referring to your own machine. That means if you clicked on this link, http://127.0.0.1, you are actually trying to connect to your own computer, and unless you have a webserver running, you will get a connection error.

 

There are some guidelines to to how IP address can appear, though. The four numbers must be between 0 and 255, and the IP address of 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255 are reserved, and are not considered usable IP addresses. IP addresses must be unique for each computer connected to a network. That means that if you have two computers on your network, each must have a different IP address to be able to communicate with each other. If by accident the same IP address is assigned to two computers, then those computers would have what is called an "IP Conflict" and not be able to communicate with each other.