I just noticed today that my youngest daughter (age 5) shows up as being 105 on
the BBS.

Her birthday is in 2009. If I change the year to 2008, she shows up as 6 years old. If I change it to 2010 or 2011, she shows up as 104 or 103 years old.

So, a couple questions:

* Is there any fix I can make for this on my end? I filter some things on my BBS by age.

* Is there any thought to making Synchronet store birthdays as 4-digit years rather than 2-digit?

I realize I am an edge case, but wanted to ask.

--Josh





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Re: Ages in Synchronet
By: Kirkman to All on Tue Mar 04 2014 02:45 pm

I'm 169 and my age shows correctly.

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Re: Ages in Synchronet
By: Kirkman to All on Tue Mar 04 2014 02:45 pm

I just noticed today that my youngest daughter (age 5) shows up as being
105 on the BBS.

Her birthday is in 2009. If I change the year to 2008, she shows up as 6 years old. If I change it to 2010 or 2011, she shows up as 104 or 103 years old.

So, a couple questions:

* Is there any fix I can make for this on my end? I filter some things on
my BBS by age.

If you have the source code, you can change these 2 lines in src/sbbs3/userdat.c:

if(age>105)
age-=100;

(change the 105 to 100) and recompile.

* Is there any thought to making Synchronet store birthdays as 4-digit
years rather than 2-digit?

Yes, in v4 whenever that happens.

digital man

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To: Kirkman
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Kirkman said it to All on Tue Mar 04 2014 02:45 pm --ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

I just noticed today that my youngest daughter (age 5) shows up as being 105 the BBS.

Her birthday is in 2009. If I change the year to 2008, she shows up as 6 yea old. If I change it to 2010 or 2011, she shows up as 104 or 103 years old.

you arent going to be complaining about swearing cause your 5 year old daughter uses dovenet, are you? cause we had people like that before.


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Hello mro,

On 07 Mar 14 22:36, mro wrote to Kirkman:

you arent going to be complaining about swearing cause your 5 year old
daughter uses dovenet, are you? cause we had people like that before.

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I know you don't see it while you're posting, but could you please turn off the avast! message at the bottom of your posts when you reply via newsgroups please?

This is actually proper etiquette even on alt.fetish.footjob.robot.sex, I'm sure. :D

Regards,
Nick

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Access Denied said it to mro on Sat Mar 08 2014 01:04 am --ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

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I know you don't see it while you're posting, but could you please turn off the avast! message at the bottom of your posts when you reply via newsgroups please?

This is actually proper etiquette even on alt.fetish.footjob.robot.sex, I'm sure. :D

I had no clue it was even doing this and must have something to do with a recent avast auto-update.

I see no way to turn off the tagline in the interface so i disabled the mail shield or whatever they call it.

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Hello mro,

On 08 Mar 14 10:41, mro wrote to Access Denied:

I know you don't see it while you're posting, but could you please
turn off the avast! message at the bottom of your posts when you
reply via newsgroups please?

I had no clue it was even doing this and must have something to do
with a recent avast auto-update.

Most people don't, as it doesn't show up in your message until it leaves your system and passes through avast!.

I see no way to turn off the tagline in the interface so i disabled
the mail shield or whatever they call it.

You should be able to keep your mail shield on, but going to the mail shield settings > Behavior > General tab, and uncheck the "Insert note into clean message (outgoing) box. And hell, it probably wouldn't hurt to uncheck both insertions of notes into clean messages (incoming and outgoing), unless you want that crap in your messages at all.

Regards,
Nick

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you arent going to be complaining about swearing cause your 5 year old daughter uses dovenet, are you? cause we had people like that before.

I've been on Dovenet for about 9 months now, and you've seen no complaints
from me along those lines, right?

In any case, I age-restrict Dovenet. So no worries.

--Josh


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To: Access Denied
.,: This is something about Ages in Synchronet,
Access Denied said it to mro on Sat Mar 08 2014 03:23 pm --ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

You should be able to keep your mail shield on, but going to the mail shield settings > Behavio General tab, and uncheck the "Insert note into clean message (outgoing) box. And hell, it probably wouldn't hurt to uncheck both insertions of notes into clean messages (incoming and outgoing), unless you want that crap in your messages at all.

mine is a bit different, but i found it. i dont like how they buried all
these settings.
i turned off the addition of the text line and i turned off the nntp port scanning.

i might have to ditch avast if it gets any more cartoony and dumbed down
in gui appearance as well.

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Kirkman said it to mro on Sat Mar 08 2014 05:02 pm --ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

To: mro

you arent going to be complaining about swearing cause your 5 year old daughter uses dovenet, are you? cause we had people like that before.

I've been on Dovenet for about 9 months now, and you've seen no complaints from me along those lines, right?

i was just joking!

it has happened before though.
there was this patch guy that ran 'wolverine's lair bbs' that complained
about some moderate swearing.

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On Sat, 08 Mar 2014, mro wrote to Access Denied:

I see no way to turn off the tagline in the interface so i disabled
the mail shield or whatever they call it.

open your avast settings and go to the mail shield settings... under behavoir, uncheck the option for "insert note into clean message (outgoing)"... that should do it... i have all three of those unchecked on my few remaining winboxen that use avast...

FWIW: they have simplified their interface and some things are not as easy to get to any more... this is with the free version... i've never seen the pay version but it might have the ability to get to the old details in an easier manner...

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To: mark lewis
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mark lewis said it to mro on Sun Mar 09 2014 01:59 pm --ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

open your avast settings and go to the mail shield settings... under behavoi uncheck the option for "insert note into clean message (outgoing)"... that should do it... i have all three of those unchecked on my few remaining winboxen that use avast...

yup i got it. i dont want it messing with my nntp port so i disabled it in that regard.

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