Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
Yes - am familiar with that product - What's funny is that my blog is wide open apart from a CAPTCHA -- and spammers avoid it like plague because I mercilessly out spammers when they hit. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Mike Hawkins wrote: > stopforumspam.com is

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Mike Hawkins
stopforumspam.com is one of several sites that have a plug-in available, which checks by username and/or IP address. IP is much better. If it finds you, you're blocked. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:32 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion - edited out

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
There is also a FILE UPLOAD area for files UP TO 180 megabytes! Over here - http://www.dxer.ca/index.php/library/schematics/schematic-upload Where you can post virtual any document, schematic (in PDF) or sound file in MP3. Open to all registered guests - NOTE: It is moderated for fairly obvious

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote: > .xlsx also please as it is the more current version. I'd have to > downconvert anything I have > > > already done. :-) -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com and DXer.ca

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Russ Edmunds
.xlsx also please as it is the more current version. I'd have to downconvert anything I have Russ Edmunds 15 mi NW Phila Grid FN20id AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder; Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2); modified

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
ALLOWABLE FILE TYPES - txt,xls,xlsx,doc,docx,pdf,zip,mp3,tar.gz,tgz,tar.bz2 SIZE Limit - 2 Mb (I think I can scale it up as high as I like -- a sensible upper limit I think would be 32M ) -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com and DXer.ca

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
Just added XLS, Doc and Txt as legit file type extensions... should add DOCX too I guess. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote: > Need to add a few Excel filetypes also as many of us use that for log data. > > Russ Edmunds > 15 mi NW Phila > Grid FN20id >

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Russ Edmunds
Need to add a few Excel filetypes also as many of us use that for log data. Russ Edmunds 15 mi NW Phila Grid FN20id AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder; Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2); modified Sony ICF2010

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
Takes a minute to add these file types. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote: > It doesn't appear to accept uploads of file types which would be used most > for logs such as Word of Excel. > > I'll attempt to upload some audio files and pdf's later. > > Russ

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Russ Edmunds
It doesn't appear to accept uploads of file types which would be used most for logs such as Word of Excel. I'll attempt to upload some audio files and pdf's later. Russ Edmunds 15 mi NW Phila Grid FN20id AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85,

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
I can add DOC types to .doc, .txt and .pdf. Here is the thing - you can type as much text into the forum as you want. One of the points is: You do not need to attach your LOG as a ZIP file or DOC or PDF because there is unlimited text space in the forum. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Paul B.

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
Thanks for the suggestion - edited out some items - Again, I do this to battle the endless swarm of forum spammers - If I did not complicate the registration process ever so slightly I would get 100's of auto-bot registrations per day and hundreds of forum spams filling my database. Spam is

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Chuck Hutton
From: IRCA <irca-boun...@hard-core-dx.com> on behalf of R. Colin Newell <coffeecan...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 8:22 PM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Subject: Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and sound

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
You asked for testers, I tested ;) It did not allow me to upload a document file, I tried that since you mentioned "logs" Paul On Tuesday, September 6, 2016, R. Colin Newell wrote: > Noted - I did this to thwart spammers -- and it has not worked very well! > :-) > > On

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
Noted - I did this to thwart spammers -- and it has not worked very well! :-) On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. < walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > just tried it, all worked fine for me, colin. > > One suggestion or two on the registration form, everything is a >

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
just tried it, all worked fine for me, colin. One suggestion or two on the registration form, everything is a required field.. people may not want to give out their detailed contact information. also, it asks for a website address, if you dont enter http://www first it wont accept it and

[IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread R. Colin Newell
Looking for beta testers to see if this format is user-friendly enough to use in a possible future version of this IRCA list - Steps: a.) Register over here - http://www.dxer.ca/index.php/settings?view=registration b.) Login and go over here -