I just installed the anti-spam filter this morning. Basically, it places all posts with URL links in them from newbie members into the moderation queue. This works great on Pelican, has cut down on 99% of spam. I also installed a spam-word filter, so posts with words like "viagra" automatically get tossed in the moderation queue and don't show up. Again, works like a charm on Pelican.

-Wayne

hi - couldn't find the bug thread so i thought that i'd post here. the site doesn't remember you if you leave it, even if you chek the 'remember me' box.

or is it just me ... ?

Do we get a discount now? :p Just Kidding (or maybe i'm not...)

I've purchased a many parts from you as well as used your technical posts and the 101 book to wrench on my Boxster and they all have been extremely helpful.

Welcome and Cheers!

Mark

Now if we can merge all my rover boards with my porsche boards I might be able to cut my time posting in half...

Great news about Pelican and good on you for working on your own 959. DIY or Die I say!

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Wlecome Wayne, are you going to integrate this board into the Boxster section of the Pelican site? Many of us are already members there too (paul in wi).

Welcome Wayne, I'm a member on your forum also, I enjoy the layout of 986forum better other then two things, links and pictures having to be clicked on (see you fixed that already!!). Things are speeder too, nice!

Does this mean you'll have time to un-crate those IMS bearings :cheers:

Glad to have you!

Great news, welcome Wayne! Any chance we can up the 70 PM limit a bit? I like to keep track of everyone I have interacted with over the years.

Be sure to log in from 986forum.com - it should remember you then. The website is moving people automatically from "www.986forum.com" to "986forum.com" in order to maintain consistency. BUT, if you log in or have cookies enabled from www.986forum.com, it won't necessarily remember you at 986forum.com

Bottomline, enable cookies for 986forum.com and you should be okay.

Thx,

Wayne

We're not 100% sure of the plans just yet. We will be integrating some of the functions together (like search engines, etc.), but the plan so far is to keep them somewhat separate at this time.

-Wayne

It took about 30-40 hours to get these forums ported and setup onto the new servers - about 10X longer than I anticipated. Stuff like this is indeed higher on the list than the IMS bearings that we have on the shelf. Soon though...

-Wayne

Done! It's now 300, which is what I think it is on Pelican. Server storage is cheap, no need to limit this so low!

Any other requests while I'm "under the hood?"

-Wayne

Howdy Wayne!!
 

Glad to see you on this sight!

I enjoy your tech forums as well as your book. I'm doing my front brakes with Pelican parts today, which is what brought me here this morning!!

Both sites are great and I could get the answers I need from either forum. I appreciate your personal responses to my questions on Pelican and your mail order parts business (and the Pelican website) is tops in my book. I have great respect for you and your company and welcome the new direction!

Brucelee and rkwei - Thanks for your efforts and dedication, I've probably saved several thousans of $$'s due to the 986forum resources. This must have been a lot of work and my hat is off to both of you!

Awesome, thanks Wayne!

Welcome Wayne!
 

Many thanks to the past owners...but very glad to have you aboard.

As a fellow entrepreneur, I admire what you have done with Pelican and I am sure you will make many improvements here...it is in our DNA and what we do.

The great thing about this forum is it inclusive and helpful to everyone from the most exotic Porsche owner to those who found their first Porsche under a tarp covered with 8 inches of snow in the county pound.

Man...the things you miss not logging in for most of the weekend. Well, welcome Wayne! Glad to have you, and so far, other than a little hiccup with my "Boxster Picture Game" thread's pictures that has since been cleared up, I'm not minding the changes to the forum so far (300 PMs, woohoo!). Pelican's saved me at least $500 just this year (my first of ownership) in parts costs, and I'm sure it'll be an even greater amount in the years to come.

I thought I was gonna be the only guy to ask about parts discounts, but looks like Appleguy beat me to it. :D (so uh, just out of curiosity...do we get one?)

If I can make one suggestion, maybe the automatic logout period can be extended by about 5 minutes?

Again, very nice to have you, and thank you for keeping this forum alive and healthy.

Hmm, I'm not sure exactly what you mean?

-Wayne

I know exactly what he means. Sometimes when replying to a question I'll search for a few links to add for clarification. If we do this and it takes more than a few minutes, 986forum drops our log in. Now we have to copy and paste everything to a clipboard, log in again, copy and paste to the forum, and complete our post. A 30 minute window to post would be helpful before being dropped out due to inactivity. :)

I have a forum request...

Six stickies per forum category is excessive and it is annoying to have to look half way down the page to find the active threads.

Can we let the stickies go and if they warrant being on top they will be there because of peoples actual interest in the threads.

Or start a special category just for all the stuff that is now stuck to the top every category.

How am I supposed to have discussions about Viagra now?