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The Case of the Missing Thread
« on: February 01, 2008, 01:20:41 PM »
I was just wondering...

There was a thread in Angst that was pretty active, called "I need help", and between the time I went to bed at midnight and logged in at 8am, it had disappeared.  Is this a weird site thing, or did y'all deliberately remove it?

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 01:34:58 PM »
I'm just as curious as you.  Mickey or Fred?

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 01:54:10 PM »
Huh...Maybe there took it out for cleaning, and forgot to put it back.  You know guys.

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2008, 03:07:04 PM »
No idea.
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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2008, 03:14:22 PM »
Curiouser and curiouser.
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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2008, 03:24:21 PM »
Database hiccups can and do happen. This might be a case of that.  It's highly unlikely that, as one private messenger has put it, the board was hacked specifically to delete one thread.
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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2008, 03:27:01 PM »
Yeah.  Paranoia's a terrible thing.

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2008, 10:11:16 PM »
I get notified via email everytime and thread is moved or removed, or when someone replies to the thread. The email I got said that Mr Finn removed it. I am sure he had his reasons.

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2008, 11:00:43 PM »
We had people repeatedly trying to invoke Carnivore.

While they were doing it in good fun, mess around with the US intelligence agencies on a board not tied to Jim, shall we?
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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2008, 11:07:05 PM »
We had people repeatedly trying to invoke Carnivore.

While they were doing it in good fun, mess around with the US intelligence agencies on a board not tied to Jim, shall we?

LOL. Yeah true. But the Intel world would have taken one look at the baord and rolled their eyes. But, "just in case" is always something to follow.

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2008, 11:28:42 PM »
Note: I had intended to post a followup thread, but got seriously distracted at work.

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2008, 11:31:32 PM »
Note: I had intended to post a followup thread, but got seriously distracted at work.

Shame on you Mickey...LOL.

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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2008, 11:38:06 PM »
We had people repeatedly trying to invoke Carnivore.

While they were doing it in good fun, mess around with the US intelligence agencies on a board not tied to Jim, shall we?

A  truly paranoid person might wonder why our esteemed favorite author would feel the need to avoid the attention of the U.S. intelligence agencies..... ;)

But then, a sensible person wouldn't want to attract their attention either. :P
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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2008, 12:59:57 AM »
Bingo on the latter.

Besides, I've seen Closetland.
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Re: The Case of the Missing Thread
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2008, 02:34:43 AM »
I'm just glad the case is closed.