Oolite Bulletins

Commander McLane wrote:

I hope we won't start aiming at each other instead... )

Comrades, our jobs are at risk. Even worse, our very profession is in danger of becoming obsolete!
Ever since the Administration changed from the CAPTCHA to the reCAPTCHA anti-spam system the amount of spammers fell to ZERO!

Of course, technology exists to ease our lives, but (call me a luddite if you want) should we allow this new trend of robotization to drive us to the dole lines?

Are we going to stand in silence when the very blood, gore and focalized wanton violence upon which we thrive is taken away from us?

Can we, in good conscience, endanger the civilian population by allowing this hardy collection of wholesomely psychotic spam assassins to suffer from abstention syndrome?!

I say NO!

Thus, I put forth to this assembly a motion to request the return of the old CAPTCHA system that allowed some (but not too many) spammers to unwittingly enter our kill zones and thus fall under our righteous weapons!

Hmmm. Strange poll.

No, I absolutely don't need to kill anything (or anyone, for that matter). I am perfectly happy with not having to post spammer's membership numbers. So my vote goes to "Peace at last!".

And for all who can't stand the peace: Don't worry, sooner or later the spammers will have overcome our new barrier. Then it will be back to the job again.

I vote we all have a well deserved holiday at some anarchaic outpost and get hammered on Riedquat ale. Oh and some Whiskas or Kit-e-Kat for the captain.

Being very much a belated (and frankly unexpected -- not that I don't appreciate it!) addition to the Union, I find I don't miss the thrill of the chase, the ripple of light along the killing edge, the hiss of razor steel as it sweeps across an exposed neck, the hot scarlet pulse of arterial blood jetting high into the air, the amazing variety of postures a beheaded corpse can take up as it slumps to the earth... OK, maybe I miss it a little bit, but this is probably a mere respite. The swords will be unsheathed again, and soon enough, I'm sure!

TGHC wrote:

I vote we all have a well deserved holiday at some anarchaic outpost and get hammered on Riedquat ale. Oh and some Whiskas or Kit-e-Kat for the captain.

I'm with the Gray-Haired one. Riedquatian ale and Kit-kats all round!
Down side is that Reno's gonna have to find himself a new avatar....maybe this:



I've just had a look through the 78 or so pages and would like to thank ALL the Spam Assassins who include:

Rxke, Dr. Nil, MtKlima, ramon, LittleBear, HueijRevisited, Ulli, Uncle Reno, DaddyHoggy (Where are you?), Killer Wolf, Cmdr. Wyvern, Commander Mclane, reills, Mad Max, Cmdr. Maegil, DerekHartley, gabbakeisen, Blunderbuss, Arexack_Heretic, Frame, lex_talionis, Disembodied, yours truel and and of course, the big bad Admin himself, Ahruman without whom our efforts would just have been persistant posts.

I salute you one and all!

Captain Hesperus

Spammers will eventually be back, I'm sure of it.

Indubitably.

…in fact, there was one just now, and you all missed him.

Here is a Man who's just enjoyed his Hunting!

Leave some for us, old boy!

Even the names of the last two ones as of now look suspicious, but I can't prove anything, so I don't report them.

Captain Hesperus wrote:

Down side is that Reno's gonna have to find himself a new avatar....maybe this:

I don't know, I'll think that I'll keep it for the moment.

Captain Hesperus wrote:

I've just had a look through the 78 or so pages and would like to thank ALL the Spam Assassins who include:

Rxke, Dr. Nil, MtKlima, ramon, LittleBear, HueijRevisited, Ulli, Uncle Reno, DaddyHoggy (Where are you?), Killer Wolf, Cmdr. Wyvern, Commander Mclane, reills, Mad Max, Cmdr. Maegil, DerekHartley, gabbakeisen, Blunderbuss, Arexack_Heretic, Frame, lex_talionis, Disembodied, yours truel and and of course, the big bad Admin himself, Ahruman without whom our efforts would just have been persistant posts.

I salute you one and all!

Captain Hesperus

Salute to the union.

I still remember the early days before the katana crowd, when we had to sneak up on the prey with can openers...

Not to mention the Second Great Spam War of a few months ago, when the clock tower was nearly overwhelmed.

Ahruman wrote:

Not to mention the Second Great Spam War of a few months ago, when the clock tower was nearly overwhelmed.

Please don't mention that, I still have flashbacks...

Ahruman wrote:

Not to mention the Second Great Spam War of a few months ago, when the clock tower was nearly overwhelmed.

...not to mention filled to the top and almost buried under used Vulcan ammo capsules...


On another matter:

Captain Hesperus wrote:

I've just had a look through the 78 or so pages and would like to thank ALL the Spam Assassins who include:

Rxke, Dr. Nil, MtKlima, ramon, LittleBear, HueijRevisited, Ulli, Uncle Reno, DaddyHoggy (Where are you?), Killer Wolf, Cmdr. Wyvern, Commander Mclane, reills, Mad Max, Cmdr. Maegil, DerekHartley, gabbakeisen, Blunderbuss, Arexack_Heretic, Frame, lex_talionis, Disembodied, yours truel and and of course, the big bad Admin himself, Ahruman without whom our efforts would just have been persistant posts.

I salute you one and all!

Captain Hesperus

You missed Winston, who 'founded' the thread (and so, in a way, also our union) in the first place!

Anyhow, it appears that my motion was rejected by the majority so far. All right, this is democraty in action, but i expected at least CH to endorse it enthusiastically...
That's just to see how misleading some felines can be!