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You have 3 blank lines (you've hit enter 3 more times) after your sig. Each counts as a line. Go back to your sig, place your cursor at the end and delete all the blank spaces. If you get a "wrong data" error, copy and paste the message (red line) in here and I can tell you which field is wrong.

I'm unfortunately in India (New Delhi) from the 18th - 23rd. We'll be in touch though. Safe swoops Sangiro

Put it here: http://www.dropzone.com/gear/Jumpsuits_and_Clothing/Kurupee/ Safe swoops Sangiro

Hmm... that doesn't sound right then. The settings on the back is definitely 100KB. I'll look into this quickly. Safe swoops Sangiro

The size limit in PMs is set to 100KB. You should be fine to send images up to that size. I'll probably bump this up in the near future. There's a bug in the application that reports the size by a few decimals off.... it has been discussed in this forum before. Size your attachment to under 100KB and you'll be fine. Safe swoops Sangiro

Worked perfectly fine for me. It's time to scan your PC for SpyWare: Try: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Safe swoops Sangiro

Frank, PM me when you get back to the UK. I'll buy you a beer. Safe swoops Sangiro

You already started one of these earlier this week... I'm pretty confident the subject matter is similar enough that you can try to keep it to a one thread. Don't make a habit of this. Safe swoops Sangiro

Read my original post....

Yes, it can be done and it does make sense. Focusing on some changes in the Gear section for a while here. I'll get to the classifieds shortly. Will build this in.

Good one. I'll ad it and will assume instruction techniques fold under this. Safe swoops Sangiro

When you think about good or bad, happy or sad DZs, what are the criteria you apply in your mind? Besides the obvious "Safety First" one, what do you think about? Pick three: Professionalism = How they treat you regardless of your experience level. Scenery = What it looks like from up there, and on the ground. Vibe = Friendliness, cliques? Facilities = Skydiving and other. Accessibility = How easy is it to get to? Weather = Typical weather? Good to jump? Services - Coaching, load organizing, rigging, types of instruction What else? Safe swoops Sangiro

JJ, take it somewhere else. Doug, you can be angry and you can be bitter, but you can not use my forums to rip at everyone who says something that you disagree with. Both of you take a month to cool off. Anyone else? Safe swoops Sangiro

No problem!

So which "monitor" flamed you? Feel free to PM me the exchange... If you're not willing to do so then don't bash them in public. Thanks for letting me know about those. Safe swoops Sangiro

Ummm.. Buller? All your links are broken! http://www.freefall.com Safe swoops Sangiro

JT, ek se vir jou wat. As jy 2 uur die oggend 'n boodskap die helfte so lank soos daardie een in my eerste taal kan skryf met minder tikfoute, dan kan ons terugsit en gesels oor die foute wat ek gamaak het in jou taal. Tot dan wil ek nie regtig veel hoor daar van die rante se kant af nie. Hier's 'n ander voorstel. Jy hoef nie regtig iets te skryf nie. Ek dink dit kan dalk jou serebrale korteks tydelik verlam of dalk meer permanente skade aandoen. Hoekom begin jy nie deur te oefen om die volgende woord te sê nie: aartappelmoerkwekersverenigingjaarvergadering. Doen dit beter of hou jou bek! PS: Het jy regtig 150 gekry in jou IK toets? Safe swoops Sangiro

Heya all, Check out this Announcement about the new Dropzone.com approach to spam. It's a long post but for those of you using Dropzone Mail (and those of you who stopped using it because of all the spam) there's some good stuff here. Hope this helps!

Heya all, I want to tell you about some changes that I'm making to fight SPAM to Dropzone.com Mail accounts and also to your email addresses that may be listed somewhere on the site. 1) Much more aggressive and pro-active anti-spam policy and approach for Dropzone Mail Up to now my approach has been somewhat hands-off and allow spam to get into the Dropzone.com Mail system, flag it for you as possible spam and let you deal with it as you see fit. Going forward the approach will be much more aggressive and pro-active. I will not allow most spam though to you anymore. It will be deleted at the server level before it gets delivered. There's always a slight risk of "false positives", meaning messages that are not spam being marked as such, and deleted. We've taken a lot of steps to try and prevent this from happening, and if it does, keeping the likelihood of it happening really low. Normal email communication should almost never get caught. You may subscribe to some mailing lists that format their mail as complex HTML pages - those are at risk. If you stop getting them, go back and check. I've tested this and I still get some pretty complex pages coming though. In the past we used SpamAssasin only to look though email for typical characteristics of SPAM. Based on a point system it assigns a "SPAM-Level" to each message. Messages scoring 5 (*****) were marked as SAPM and sent on to you. In the future we will enhance the SpamAssasin algorithms by also checking each email sent against a list of Open Relay databases. These are open servers often used by spammers to hide where there emails are coming from. Emails originating from one of these servers will automatically have their SPAM-Level bumped up in SpamAssassin. We will also use the Open Relay checks built into SpamCop (another anti-spam application) to further check messages. SpamCop is known to be quite strict. In the future, all messages scoring 4 (****) or higher in SpamAssassin will not be delivered to you at all. You can still use the anti-spam filters of Dropzone Mail to sort even lower scoring messages to a special folder or delete them completely. 2) White-listing We've added all email addresses that resides on Dropzone.com to a "white-list". This means the server will reject any email to dropzone.com for an address that's not on that list. Although this will not necessarily reduce spam it will reduce the load on the server. "Brute force" spam attacks often try to force their way into the system by simply adding any possible word to in front of @dropzone.com and firing it at our server to process. For each one it gets wrong (which is 99.9% of them) we have to scan for virusses, see if we can find the user and sent a "bounced mail" message back. This bogs down the mail server for legitimate mail. If the address is not on the white-list we wont look at it in the future. It will simply be deleted. 3) Encrypting Email Addresses (using character entities) In the future all email addresses on Dropzone.com will be encrypted using the actual character entities to create the HTML that you see on a page. This means robots running though the site parsing the pages to harvest email addresses will only see the entities and will find nothing. You have to look at the code through a browser for it to make sense. My email address for example would look like this to a robot: (Those of you who know how to do it, open a user's profile with an email address. View the page source code and find the email address...) The following email addresses are currently encoded: Address in your Forum Profile Address posted with a Classified ad in the allocated space (not if you put it in the body of the ad) Addresses in the Stolen Gear Database Addresses in the Dropzone Database (if you listed a contact email for your DZ) A few final thoughts: Will this stop all spam to your Dropzone.com Mail account? No it may not. But depending on how you use your email address we should get most of it. If you make your address available online and publish it all over the web you should expect it to be harvested, sold and re-sold. Use some common-sense techniques to protect yourself. Even with the encoding use something like : sangiro_at_dropzone_dot_com. The encoding scripts will have no issues with that and most users will understand what to do to email you. Check out this page for some good information on why you're getting a lot of spam. Again, not that by FAR the majority of spam goes to addresses that has been published on the web and that by removing them or fixing them it does make a difference, even after the fact! Ok, that's it for now! Dropzone.com Mail users, give me some feedback and let me know if this helps. Those of you who stopped using your Dropzone.com mail accounts - try cleaning it all out and give it a go again! Safe swoops Sangiro

Please see this thread in Announcements again. There are but a few people who had animated avatars before I made this post - I know who they are. Please refrain from using unnecessary flashy and animated avatars. Please be considerate. Safe swoops Sangiro

Will add a link in the Safety & Training section. Safe swoops Sangiro

That's been fixed. After yesterday's upgrades all the first categories (alphabetically) were dropped during the build last night. We're catching them up. Safe swoops Sangiro

Spending quite a bit of time re-organizing and updating the FAQs. I get a lot of emails daily with questions that have been answered many times. Moved it to a database to enable me to track which FAQs are most often viewed - that should give me a better trail of where people are struggling - and also to build in a feedback loop for myself though the ability to rate FAQs. Sorry about the post-icons AD. It can be a nice feature but it's not in line with the branding I have here - which is about keeping it simple and as non-cheesy as possible. Also, I actually think the icons can be used as functionality rather than just a noisy little graphic. For example: Maybe NSFW posts can be labeled with a specific icon, and maybe people can have a setting that enables them to not view threads (if they so choose) with that icon... just a thought. Using the icons just randomly diminishes the value I may be able to get from them later.... when I find the time to think about it! Safe swoops Sangiro