Boy he has must have taken an extra shot of the kool aide to dream up this one. I believe this is the beginning of the end of his forums. talk about paranoia!!!!
I think things will get better for the other part 15 forums and his will die a slow death.
http://www.hobbybroadcaster.net/community/index.php?topic=2778.msg17998;topicseen#msg17998
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There's been an influx of traffic attempting to breach various portions of the site, with the forums becoming an area of interest. While the webterns and I have been able to keep things under control it has been noted things appear to be increasing. In fact, recently I identified two users who had infected Windows computers that were pounding on the site while these users where interacting with the site in general as well as the forums.In an effort to control the chaos changing the forums to mandatory log-in for all access is strongly being considered. I, for one, am not fond of doing this but the time and resources spent to keep the site clean needs to be reigned in and at this point this seems to be the most logical method to do so.You're invited to comment within this thread but unless there's some major compelling reason not to I don't see any other remedy available. I networked with a few operators of forums that serve the audiophile and hi-fi interest communities and they confirmed that their problems have lessened with this strategy.
oh now isn't this cute:
i get this when visiting his forums now.
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Sorry Guest, you are banned from using this forum!
Multiple Account Attempts Detected
This ban is not set to expire.
This report had me worried since I visit the other radio forums everyday and the hobby site has always carried interesting and informative stuff just like we have here at this site.
Just now I went over there and was able to see the forums as usual so I'm not sure what anything means. Maybe only certain people are being banned? But from many accounts it's always been that way. There was a long period when I was banned, and then it cleared up.
If someone is able to infect a website by visiting its forums are they less able to infect the site if they are blocked from the forums? I would think hackers intent on harming a website could do it either way, but I don't know any hackers to ask.
Most of all the webmaster over there needs to guard his peace of mind, and if blocking access helps, then he should do it.
I guard my peace of mind by doing work in the yard trimming around the edges.
Their so-called 'public' Forum (at least for reading) has never been that.
From what I can see, it's a vanity web site, and the individuals participating on it do so to build up the ego of Mr. Bill.
They blocked my IP when I was criticizing them for their biased AM transmitter testing. I know that because I still could get into the site with a different IP. It's pretty trivial to change your IP, so I was still able to read their Forum when I wanted to (at least, prior to this change), which wasn't very often. I went there for a laugh now and then (such as when they were whining about others 'stealing' Mr. Bill's post about variable modulation).
I don't think that it's a loss at all. Mr. Bill will get what he wants, which is to be revered by the few members that he has (not only does he control the posting quite rigidly, but he also controls the membership). This Forum still gets the most discussion about Part 15 by far, particularly by individuals new to the hobby. Anyone who is breathing can be a member. And the people here don't tend to think that they know everything. It's quite refreshing, actually.
And there are still other Forums such as Radio Discussions or Radio Talk. While they're aimed primarily at the radio profession in general, they do have Part 15 components.. During the AM transmitter 'discussions', several prominent members from Hobby Broadcaster attempted to hijack those components, and they were told quite severely that the kind of behaviour they were exhibiting (insulting remarks, personal attacks) would not be tolerated - so they left like spoiled children.
I try to steer clear of social politics. I prefer a comfortable distance as an outsider. Less hassle that way. I'll just smile and wave, maybe comment or ask questions.
I enjoy this group and am quite content with it as my Part 15 home.
my general purpose part15 site is not public.. never has been, never will be.. it has everything to do with personal politics. I just don't want people I dont personally know on the site.. am i an evil bastard for doing it? *shrug* - I dont care 🙂
The way to be a successful evil bastard is to deny being an evil bastard. You can rise to the top that way and get into a position to do much bigger evil.
rick you an bill, two completely different individuals, you have verifiable and totally justafiable reasons for not publicising your forum and you certainly don't run your little kingdon like a military school or use it to stroke an enormous ego. and you certainly wouldn't ban someone and comletely lock them out of the entire (i now get a 403 error on his entire site) site for no reason other than paranoia and ego that some info that should be available to benefit the entire part 15 community gets shared. what mr. defelice doesn't realize is that i have a couple of his little disciples who haven't completely drank the kool aide and will still share interesting info with me so he hasn't completely shut me out like he thinks he has. let his choke on that one for a while.
There are many private and semi-private web sites. And that's fine.
Just don't go proclaiming that you're open and public, profess a desire to listen to others, pretend to be interested in helping the general community of Part 15 radio, then get all in a huff when some criticize what you're doing - and shut the doors.
Hobbybroadcaster may continue to survive as a small sandbox where a few like-minded individuals play. It may die. But who cares?
Part15.us will continue to be the premier place to go for Part 15 (or whtever it's called in your part of the world) related discussions. And that's good.
This low power website is the original website of its kind and has always been a welcome place to discuss broadcast technology, programming and all the related topics.
Bring a problem here and all the members share their solutions and suggestions.
This website supported the startup of an adjoining website, thealpb.com, and encourages all kinds of information exchange across forums.
Many opened competing websites and instead of being threatened, Part15.US encourages back-and-forth links and sometimes half-a-conversation here the other half over there.
The Part 15 and worldwide low power community is active and inventive.
I even have a Part 15 Page on my website, but not a forum, because this one is already here.
Over at hb, they're saying that there's a furor here over their lockdown.
No furor. Merely amazement. I wonder how many of their members really buy the malware argument. In reality it's a way of totally controlling the information - 1984 if you will. So no one will 'steal
' his messages from the mount. And if you can't see them, then you can't criticize.
Right, and I was surprised that the member who said "The boys across the street seem to be up in arms about it, though," is not only a member of the ALPB, sometimes posts over here, but is a writer for RW. What does that say.
Another puzzling thing was mention that some of their own members were found to have infected computers, as so-called "infected computers" are mentioned as the reason for locking the barn doors. But if members who sign in might have infected computers, what are we talking about?
I guess I'm up in arms.
well after what i guess was suppsose to be a public threat against me the "Board Administrator" aka: Bill has put the whole topic behind his iron curtain.
The Final Solution to such madness over at happy hobby will be to put the whole website behind their iron curtain.
Then they will finally be at peace...
And so will we!
It's highly unlikely that any computer infected with malware could unintentionally cause problems for any sort of reasonably protected server while just browsing web pages. Intentionally, well, that's another matter, but they're not using that as an excuse.
It's much more likely that a server will infect your computer in that fashion, as it's you that's downloading data, which could have anything in it.
Of course, if you're using other services such as uploading files, etc., it's possible to infect a server if it's not reasonably protected. But those functions are almost always password protected in any event.
No, these guys just want a private sandbox to play in (or, at least, Mr. Bill does). I guess he thinks that by waving his arms, sounding authoritative and spouting off about malware (the modern day boogie man), he'll hide his real reasons.