# About This Message Board **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=561 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 562 --- ## [Since I'm here, I always wondered just how long you could make one of these thread ti](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011)
**Author:** [@Dr.Watson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Watson)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011 "2000-03-13T02:41:00Z")
Answered that question in a hurry. Dr. Watson “Don’t try this at home, this man is a pathetic amateur.” --- ## [Pardon my naivete...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-my-naivete/1006)
**Author:** [@Beauxeau\_IX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauxeau_IX)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2000, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-my-naivete/1006 "2000-03-12T07:56:00Z")
I’m semi-quasi-new to this board, and I just took my first dives into the BBQ Pit and this ATMB forum. I scanned a couple of threads about John John/Cyb and his band of sock puppets, as well as some threads in the MPSIMS… --- ## [Is it illegal to pass on neat websites?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-illegal-to-pass-on-neat-websites/1000)
**Author:** [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-illegal-to-pass-on-neat-websites/1000 "2000-03-11T23:17:00Z")
I found a cool site titled “How Stuff Works” at http://www.howstuffworks.com/ and want to pass it on to Straight Dope members as I think it might be of interest to lots of people. Can I do that or will this post automat… --- ## [Copy and Paste???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-and-paste/995)
**Author:** [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-and-paste/995 "2000-03-11T22:55:00Z")
Okay, I used the “search” thing first and found nothing. How do you copy and paste things? All the time, I see where people have put whole paragraphs or articles from another website in a thread. How does one use this my… --- ## [New Rules?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules/989)
**Author:** [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules/989 "2000-03-11T06:29:00Z")
In this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000777.html Lynn has posted a link to the new rules. To repeat DB, Just thought I would ask the question here, since Lynn suggested it might get answered … --- ## [What time is it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/985)
**Author:** [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/985 "2000-03-10T22:46:00Z")
What happened to the clock now? It appears to be a full 24 hours fast. The time now is 4:47pm (in Chicago) on Thursday, 3/9/00. --- ## [What day is it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-is-it/988)
**Author:** [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2000, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-is-it/988 "2000-03-10T17:07:00Z")
Is it me or are the dates messed up? I don’t think it is March 10th just yet. Gypsy: Tom, I don’t get you. Tom Servo: Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby. --- ## [Uh, Tuba, About bandwidth stealing.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-tuba-about-bandwidth-stealing/918)
**Author:** [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-tuba-about-bandwidth-stealing/918 "2000-03-07T19:41:00Z")
I don’t think that everyone here realizes the difference between referencing a page or site and using art or pictures from that site. The main issue that I am talking about is the cute little smiley that shoots the othe… --- ## [Message Board Search](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913)
**Author:** [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913 "2000-03-07T01:04:00Z")
Is the message board search function down again? I haven’t been able to get it to work for a few days now. My board got hacked and all I got was this lousy sig file… --- ## [Posting links w/out HTML](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-links-w-out-html/910)
**Author:** [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-links-w-out-html/910 "2000-03-06T21:51:00Z")
Other than the automatic URL feature in UBB, and using the {url}http://www.your link here.com{/url} UBB code, how can I still put links in posts. Manny did it in the gun sizes post, so I assume there is a way to use the … --- ## [test](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/909)
**Author:** [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/909 "2000-03-06T15:48:00Z")
Just want to make sure This looks the way I think it will :slight\_smile: Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we’ve been eating Gam-er-aaaa… --- ## [Secretive profiles.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secretive-profiles/907)
**Author:** [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2000, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secretive-profiles/907 "2000-03-06T09:13:00Z")
Why do so many Dopers omit or disguise information in their profiles? Most often is seems to be “occupation” and "location. Noboby, generally, knows who you are anyway. I like to read the profiles. They add color and s… --- ## [To the moderators: When do we get new passwords?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-moderators-when-do-we-get-new-passwords/906)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-moderators-when-do-we-get-new-passwords/906 "2000-03-04T20:49:00Z")
Concerning the recent down-time of the SDMB, and the exhortation to change passwords–well, when do we do this? I got my original password by e-mail; if new ones are issued, do we check our e-mail messages for this or jus… --- ## [Why has HTML been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-has-html-been-disabled/887)
**Author:** [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-has-html-been-disabled/887 "2000-03-02T15:15:00Z")
Why has HTML been disabled? --- ## [What's up with these archives?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-these-archives/884)
**Author:** [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-these-archives/884 "2000-03-02T06:38:00Z")
I understand the need to keep things under control, but just because a thread is inactive for two days doesn’t make it necessary to kill it. And how about making the archives postable, instead of read only? It’s not ho… --- ## [Questions:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/875)
**Author:** [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2000, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/875 "2000-02-29T06:13:00Z")
Why is the address now boards.straightdope.com/ ? Will the old addresses work? When the Board was up on Wednesday, I changed my password. Should I change it yet again? Has the FBI been notified? This WAS an inter… --- ## [Thank you, tech team](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-tech-team/873)
**Author:** [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-tech-team/873 "2000-02-28T13:24:00Z")
I’d just like to extend a “thank you” to everybody who worked to get the message board up: We love you. You kick ass. Angels should flit about your heads and shower rose petals where you will step. May your servers alwa… --- ## [testing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/870)
**Author:** [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/870 "2000-02-27T15:41:00Z")
\ \ \John\ \Q\ \Public\ \ \john.q.public.1@gsfc.nasa.gov\ \301-286-aaaa\ \301-286-bbbb\ \ \Bldg. 2… --- ## [Tell us when the hacker gets caught, OK?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-when-the-hacker-gets-caught-ok/869)
**Author:** [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-when-the-hacker-gets-caught-ok/869 "2000-02-26T20:03:00Z")
Some of us would like to heap some derision on the bastard, fart in his general direction, and send his email address to every known spam site. Really, though…since this attack was “personal,” I’d like to see what happe… --- ## [How do you change your password?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-change-your-password/868)
**Author:** [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-change-your-password/868 "2000-02-26T15:52:00Z")
Do I have to re-register or what? --- ## [No more html?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-html/866)
**Author:** [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2000, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-html/866 "2000-02-26T07:57:00Z")
A moderator at mfsd confirmed that sdmb would no longer allow html for security reasons. WTF? mfsd misc.facts.straight-dope sdmb Straight Dope Message Board html hypertext metalanguage WTF where’s the food --- ## [Problems not over?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-not-over/862)
**Author:** [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-not-over/862 "2000-02-25T20:41:00Z")
We’ve apparently lost some of the posts that were posted right before The Great Message Board Crash. (If the prose is deathless, how can it be gone?) --- ## [How to change password?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859)
**Author:** [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859 "2000-02-24T00:22:00Z")
Can anybody help me out? I can’t work out how to change my password as per the advisory. --- ## [What happened?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857)
**Author:** [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857 "2000-02-23T23:49:00Z")
Feel free to tell me “It’s none of your beeswax”, but what happened to the board on 21/22 February 2000? Official winner of Bricker Challenge #5. --- ## [Trolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls/763)
**Author:** [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls/763 "2000-02-14T15:52:00Z")
Okay, curse me, flame me, tell me off and call me stupid and ignorant, both you on this board who hate me can make fun of me, But… What the hell is a troll? I’m just dying to know. I think I suspect the answer, but wh… --- ## [Where'd Melin go?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-melin-go/674)
**Author:** [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-melin-go/674 "2000-02-09T21:00:00Z")
Upon loading up the SDMB today I noticed that Melin has been replaced by Eutychus55 as moderator of MPSIMS… where’d Melin go? Alex --- ## [Info for the Moderators re: gl0worm's SDMB vandalism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-for-the-moderators-re-gl0worms-sdmb-vandalism/673)
**Author:** [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-for-the-moderators-re-gl0worms-sdmb-vandalism/673 "2000-02-09T12:36:00Z")
Our newest asshole, gl0worm, appears to have sabotaged the banner ads in the following threads. http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000545.html http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000489.html http://ww… --- ## [the un-thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-un-thread/657)
**Author:** [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-un-thread/657 "2000-02-06T05:31:00Z")
\ --- ## [The Eighth Category of Knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eighth-category-of-knowledge/656)
**Author:** [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eighth-category-of-knowledge/656 "2000-02-06T05:10:00Z")
TubaDiva cruises all seven boards in pursuit of whatever it is Administrators enjoy in reading our wit, wisdom, or lack thereof. But this is her home turf, and of late it has been an exceptionally boring place to be, exc… --- ## [(Pssst! Louie?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-louie/647)
**Author:** [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-louie/647 "2000-02-03T03:25:00Z")
\Louie, how the devil can I get a line between paragraphs? Is there a UBB code that will act as a hard carriage return? I sometimes use Netscape Composer and it loses paragraphing when I bring it over here.… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=560) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=562)