Dont Need To Know?

DeVore

We posted our first every mail spam!
Is it spam? You signed up for it..

Anyway, DNTK (Dont Need To Know) is going to be a vaguely regular (probably monthly or whenever we get our finger out) newsletter style *thing*

Ah, dont ask me, just read the below copy.
If you want it edit your profile and say YES to mail from Admins.

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DONT NEED TO KNOW

<*Boards.ie: we're not mad, we're sane in a mad world...*>


Welcome to the first inaurgral Boards.ie mail thing. You are getting this

because you didn't uncheck that little box at the bottom of the registration

form where is says "allow the adminstrators to mail me occasionally". You must

have seen it, it was right below "Give the administrators all my worldly

belongings".

Anyway, what the hell is this spam? Well, We figured that since even we couldnt

keep up with all the topics on boards these days, we'd start pasting the good

ones into IRC to each other. Eventually we thought it would be useful to mail a

round up of the best every so often. Useful for everyone except Hobbes (who

reads it all himself. Obviously.)

The title comes from Danny O'Brien's tech-industry round up mail called NEED TO

KNOW. We scarfed his ascii art because ascii art is for people with too much

freakin time on their hands. To join the real NTK list mail an empty message to ntknow-subscribe@lists.ntk.net or check out their web site at:

http://www.ntk.net/

In order not to break our backs sucking our own ****s we'll include equally

useless but fascinating-in-the-face-of-work-or-study stuff that we get all the

time. Exploding whales, bonsai kittens, that sort of thing.

Enough bull****, on with the mail! Boards round up first...


Our Featured Homepage: http://www.boards.ie/members/deadbankclerk/
What a lovely collection of muppets....


The hate campaign rightly rages on against esat over on

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum3/HTML/002000.html but we had to give

"activist of the week" to http://www.boards.ie/members/cr8or/ for his subtle

(and informative) appraisal of the situation. Burn Esat Burn... it could be put

to music. I wonder if Boards.ie could sue them for the number of impressions

we are likely to lose now...

The mosh pit we refer to as the counterstrike board seems to be concerned with

gamblers welfare and gameshops servers. Remarkable if only for fisty's first steps into maturity... lets give him a big hand eh?

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum20/HTML/001571.html

Over on dmin Slydice has something to hide me-thinks

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum24/HTML/000198.html and the monster that is

boards.ie turns on one of its own, unsuccessfully...

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum24/HTML/000192.html .

That last link referred to one of the funniest muppets we've had on boards.ie

for some time. read about the start of it here:

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum14/HTML/000690.html Warning: Boards Bites

Back. Someone must have gotten a shock in class...

And now for something you really DONT need to know. Dont complain to us about

the seconds of your life you will lose if you click these links... you can

thank Hobbes (master of the weird useless websites) for

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum1/HTML/001913.html and I'll save you the

trouble and deep link to

http://pikachize.eye-of-newt.com/pika.cgi?url=www.boards.ie

quotes, you want 'em we got 'em

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum12/HTML/000839.html but you'll have to wait

if http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum12/HTML/000850.html dont get their acts

together.

In the dark and dank lair of Castor Troy lurks many interesting posts. This is

one of them: http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum15/HTML/000476.html

The new Wargames board is lively enough (even if its packed full of geeks.. us

too!). to prove it, he's a report of DeV beating Regi...

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum27/HTML/000016.html pp

Evil Phil walks a fine line but Kharn says... I'll allow it!

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum16/HTML/001155.html though I think

AngelWhore is losing it...

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum16/HTML/001157.html


Other stuff on Boards.ie:

*** Our latest poll...***
How would you vote on the Nice treaty?
"Yes" 15 vote(s) with 44%
"No" 10 vote(s) with 31%
"More Info Please" 7 vote(s) with 24%

Which just goes to show boards users are not normal.

Polls can be found at the bottom of the community main bulletin page.

*** Monthly impression stats: ***
Nov 2000 170,289
Dec 2000 238,508
Jan 2001 311,309
Feb 2001 318,348
Mar 2001 404,578
Apr 2001 543,567
May 2001 669,132

We expect Summer to be slower. UL will be on holidays after all.... then again theres always those who have to repeat...

**HEy, whats that big room out there with no roof?**

easing us gently into the rest of the web is Freak Bruther with some ****ed up

3d art of the boards guy. http://homepage.eircom.net/~cullenm/board3d.jpg

Did you know Space had a terrible secret? Just as well the pusher and shover

robots are here to protect us... http://www.jonathonrobinson.com/secret.html
Please go stand by your stairs.

If you thought the dancing baby was too cute to stomach, why not try the

deranged singing baby, its quite disturbing. http://www.eugenemirman.com/
and if it gets inside your dreams you might want to try this site

http://www.requiemforadream.com

after that take a break with some crrraaazzzy golf

http://www.electrotank.com/lab/miniGolf.html but if all gets too intensive be

sure not to stab anyone...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_327201.html?menu=news.quirkies
the cops might not be able to help them...

http://europe.cnn.com/2001/US/06/12/911.puppies/

One last helpful link for George Bush http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/magazine/0,9868,130024,00.html ... he used to read boards.ie but we had to 12-click him for acting the muppet with China.


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Thats it for our first ever DNTK. This has been a test of the emergency system. Do not adjust your mailers.

Thanks to NTK for not sueing us and www.webnet.ie/open for some of the links.
If theres something you think we should include in DNTK mail dntk@spinsol.com

If you want to get off DNTK just edit your profile and say no to email from admins. If you want to you must be one sad reactionary to object to one spam but you can mail Iwanttoobjecttodntk@spinsol.com . We'll read them all. Honest!

DNTK hits 2,500 weirdos and is looking for a sponsor, mail us if you want to know more.

Mr B.

Coyote

Cool great to have a email list like that for the boards.
any chance of puting up the top 5 IP's that hit the boards ? so we can see the top 5 freeks

Coyote

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You try to be smarter,
And I will try to be nicer

richindub2

Oj and Hobbes would be on that list id say, cant think of who else

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*cough*
daves l33t site 0wns j00.

DeVore

Amazingly I already got a mail from someone saying "please take me off your list"!

We dont count impressions by user and with dynamic IP it would be hard to get those stats. I remember doing it ages and Osiris had the highest impressions of all the static-ip people bar the ISPs....

DeV.

Cr8or

Thanks for the comments about the site (your check is in the post) *joke*

Any way i updated before my net connection dies (dam esat).

http://www.boards.ie/members/cr8or/

DeVore

Even more amazingly someone actually posted to Iwanttoobjecttodntk@spinsol.com and said

"please edit my profile".

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Yes, all I sit around all day waiting for such instructions...

Anyway, so far feedback is good and the next one will be better (we rushed this one because we were excited about it )

BTW, I'd love to find out if anyone knows/remembers who Mr B. is (and Eviiil Phil isnt allowed enter )

Answers on a *mail*

DeV.

Hobbes

Local state law allows me to bill you $200 for unsoliticted spam.

The bill is in the mail.

DeVore

Ah but its not unsolicited.
You expressly gave us the permission.

Oh and <*bender voice*> bite my shiny metal ass


DeV.

Cr8or

lol i dident
no mail for me. /me thought ahead

Trev

Good idea. However, I got the e-mail 3 times. It could be something to do with having previous accounts here which I thought I got rid of.

How can I remove these accounts that I dont want? If at all possible.

Thanks.

TwoShedsJackson

Shame, I had locked the Humanities topic linked to in it just before I got the email

Bard

I have "yes" selected in the mail from Admins option and I didn't get it at all... darnit

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Bard

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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

DeVore

Bard, thats strange we only got about 30 bounces... I'll have a look through them and see if you are among them, it will take me 2 weeks tho as I'm away to the states on monday morning for business.

Trev, what were the usernames? and why did you have them?


DeV.

Monty - the one and only

Mine just arrived a few min ago...

Baz_

Very good so it is, I especially liked reading the beginnings of the glenstal.ie thing. Keep up the good work.

Victor

Good idea, keep it to say 10 per year. Identify it more as a boards.ie 'product in the opening 3 lines. Then if people don't want it then so be it - their loss.

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Changing call sign to SIERRA PAPA OSCAR OSCAR FOXTROT.

Trev

My previous names:

Moonraker
Trevelyan

The reasons was to do with clans (I play Team Fortress). I'd go in to detail but I thought I might save that for a rainy day.

Thanks.

DeVore

Trev, those users are now deleted.

DeV.

Trev

Thanks DeVore.

azezil

the mail was too long, there were not pictures of spining things..i want spinning things dammit!!!

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"just because you're not paraniod, doesn't mean they're not after you!"