Well, I couldn't ignore it. Below are excerpts from the newsletter and my comments in (parenthesis) as BBCode seems to be turned off for me in this section
The best flood protection you can get.
By MartYani
First of all, those are some protections for preventing ctcp or message flood
Enter them in your Scripts Editor. (ALT+R) Enter them into the Remote tab
--flood protections--
on ^+1:open:?:*:{ hinc -mu3 prvflood opened | if ($hget(prvflood,opened) > 1) { silence +*!*@*.*,+~*!*@undernet.org,+~*!*@*.undernet.org | .timeropenflood 1 30 silence -*!*@*.*,-~*!*@undernet.org,-~*!*@*.undernet.org | echo -a * Flood - SILENCE is ON Check flood.txt from your mIRC directory | write flood.txt $date $+ / $+ $time - $fulladdress $1- | halt } }
ctcp *:*:if (%¢) inc -u10 %¢ | else set -u10 %¢ 1 | if (%¢ > 4) { echo -a warning CTCP LAME flooders | silence +*!*@*.*,+~*!*@undernet.org,+~*!*@*.undernet.org | unset %¢ | .timer 1 180 silence -*!*@*.*,-~*!*@undernet.org,-~*!*@*.undernet.org | write msg.txt $date $+ / $+ $time - CTCP FLOOD: $fulladdress $1- }
It\\\\\\\'s better than nothing. Trust me, it will work just only the drones are not logged in. Simple as pie, you\\\\\\\'re not logged in, you cannot message me! Isn\\\\\\\'t this nice? :o)
After you get flooded, your drones are logged into a file called flood.txt and you can find it in your mIRC directory, that\\\\\\\'s for reporting the drones to the
abuse-exploits@undernet.org or for the #report-abuse channel.
That\\\\\\\'s all for now, I\\\\\\\'ll post new articles in a short time. Enjoy Undernet
(Umm. There might still be a person or two on Undernet that use Linux (or any *nix), Mac, a webchat interface, or any of the myriad of Windows IRC clients OTHER than mIRC. You might want to state somewhere in the article this is meant ONLY for users of mIRC.)
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Spaghetti Alla Carbonara (Spaghetti a la carbonara would be the correct spelling)
By Kanne
Spaghetti Alla Carbonara. (Spaghetti a la carbonara would be the correct spelling)
Ingredients:
1/4 lbs Bacon (smoked) (Where I come from bacon is sold by the (full) pound. And should be eaten that way!)
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 egg yolks (whipped)
1/2c Fresh Parmisan cheese (grated) (Should be spelled Parmesan.)
Piece of Garlic(optional)
Salt
Pepper
Spaghetti
Fry the bacon in the olive oil, with the garlic, until the bacon is well cooked but not burnt.
Beat the eggs with the Parmisan cheese.
Cook the Spaghetti in boiling water, stirring occasionally so it wont stick.
When \'aldente\', salt them then strain. (al dente is two words.)
Put them back into the pot and add the bacon over a low flame then the eggs.
Stir until cooked.
Add pepper and serve warm.
Enjoy! (I can't! Not enough bacon!!)
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Valentine Day in Spanish mode (Valentine's Day)
By kaisser
Día de San Valentín, conocido también como día del amor ó de la amistad, es una celebración que se celebra cada año en Febrero el día 14.
Existen muchas historias referentes a este día. Desde místicas hasta religiosas sin embargo sea como fuese, San Valentín se ha convertido en el patrón de todos los enamorados y de todas aquellas personas que quieren tienen una pareja ya sea en el aspecto sentimental u amical. Este día se ha convertido en un día perfecto para regalar con cariño y afecto flores, postales, poemas de amor, dedicatorias, bombones y regalos de todo tipo de presentes por ser el día más querido y así demostrar amor y amistad.
Undernet, la primera red en IRC celebra también días de festín entre todos sus usuarios por los miles de canales que ya existen en distintos idiomas. La emoción nos embarga y nos acongoja al saber que un día tan especial como es el 14 de Febrero une no solo a parejas y encuentros románticos si no también a amistades que con ansias han esperado durante todo el año tan importante fecha.
El comité de usuario de Undernet (User-Com #newsletter) no ha dejado de lado tan importante festividad y ha preparado el presente boletín para saludar a los usuarios regulares que a diario concurren nuestra red y usuarios registrados deseando este 14 de Febrero 2009 sea un día de gozo, dicha y unión entre amigos, enamorados y parejas; esperando vengan mejores y muchos años más en adelante.
Bienvenido y gracias por compartir un momento con nosotros.
kaisser
User-Com member. #newsletter
(The newsletter was posted February 25th, 2009. Valentine's Day is February 14th, every year.)
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Valentine Day (Valentine's Day)
By Carlos
Valentine's Day is a traditional celebration in which friends, lovers, boyfriends or husbands express love or affection to each other. Held on the February 14, Valentine onomastic. In some countries is called the Day of Love and Other Day of Love and Friendship.
It is now celebrated by exchange of notes of love known as valentines, with symbols such as the heart or Cupid, but with the popularity of the Internet is now also used to exchange cards.
Modern Valentine's Day was imported to the U.S. in the nineteenth century by the British. The first produced valentines postcards dating from 1847, created by American businessman and artist Esther Howland (1828-1904).
(The newsletter was posted February 25th, 2009. Valentine's Day is February 14th, every year.)
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Now for some excerpts from this topic on the forum:
by vivianlee on Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:49 am
We successfully completed an April newsletter. After that there were problems with the data base. If the database is not fixed within the next week Banjo intends to have an email only version out. This will not be available to view online. Only via email. You can subscribe to undercurrents by sending an email to
undercurrents-request@undernet.org with just the word "subscribe" either in the subject or in the body of the message.
We do have a lot of wonderful articles, the committee has not been idle while waiting for the problems to be resolved.
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by Puck7 on Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:22 pm
One month ago xplorer said that the project is back, and he needed people to write articles, so i did write two articles, but still no response, when i asked they said that they are waiting for the administrator of the databases, since then they are still waiting.
I'm curious what will happen.
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by vivianlee on Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:34 pm
Puck I think you know that all things on Undernet take a little time, and patience. Just keep writing and I'm sure eventually another issue of the newsletter will happen.
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Now the conclusion.
So, the committee had a lot of wonderful articles ready a year and a half ago but the above is what was chosen to put in print at this time? Let me guess, someone gave the go-ahead for this last night so a mad scramble ensued to get something out and no one even bothered to look back through older submissions?
I really don't mean to trash the effort, but this absolutely screams amateur hour. And I'm not even referring to the problems you've seemed to have encounted with escaping characters in PHP (see Editor's Note and possibly Futuristic Fun in the newsletter.)
MrEen
P.S. As my previous post may show, the quoting function on this forum seems to be broken. It might only be this section though, as this seems the only section where BBCode is off for me.
