Strange distance in hit

MDeen · Post by **MDeen** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:49 pm

Have a look at note P0x632583xxx.
The distance traveled is 5768 km, although the hits are in Dordrecht and Hoorn, some 100 km apart.
I suspect the distance calculator is confused by one of the zipcodes?

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:54 pm

MDeen wrote:Have a look at note P0x632583xxx.
The distance traveled is 5768 km, although the hits are in Dordrecht and Hoorn, some 100 km apart.
I suspect the distance calculator is confused by one of the zipcodes?

The problem is that when a lat/long is unknown it currently defaults to 0,0 hence the huge distance. I know it should be better

It should be ok now.

DoubleYou · Post by **DoubleYou** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 3:16 pm

Hey mrdeen is advertising within his signature!! That was forbidden i thought.

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 5:13 pm

DoubleYou wrote:Hey mrdeen is advertising within his signature!! That was forbidden i thought.

You can't advertise a competing site

emmem · Post by **emmem** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 9:13 pm

DoubleYou wrote:Hey mrdeen is advertising within his signature!! That was forbidden i thought.

Well. The signature really doesn't look like a signature to me. I must admit that.

IMHO something like the following looks more like it (this way it's more personal)

MDeen
Huge fan of seti@home and member of the number 1 dutch users group.

MDeen · Post by **MDeen** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 1:41 pm

emmem wrote:
DoubleYou wrote:Hey mrdeen is advertising within his signature!! That was forbidden i thought.
Well. The signature really doesn't look like a signature to me. I must admit that.

IMHO something like the following looks more like it (this way it's more personal)

MDeen
Huge fan of seti@home and member of the number 1 dutch users group.

I didn't know there was a rule for that. Can you point me to that rule please?

I must say I wouldn't understand if I make a link to this site. I can understand that you don't want commercial advertisments, but a link to another site wher people with a different geekdom do things?
How would you feel if the guys at Seti@Netherlands issue the same ban and don't allow me to give a linkt to the EBT site?

But if it's really not allowed, I will change the sig without hesitation (but do inform me before tomorrow, sunday 21st because I'm going on a three week holiday then, and send a PM please so I won't miss the discussion)

Cheers,

Maarten

emmem · Post by **emmem** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 5:08 pm

MDeen wrote: I didn't know there was a rule for that. Can you point me to that rule please?
I must say I wouldn't understand if I make a link to this site. I can understand that you don't want commercial advertisments, but a link to another site wher people with a different geekdom do things?
How would you feel if the guys at Seti@Netherlands issue the same ban and don't allow me to give a linkt to the EBT site?

But if it's really not allowed, I will change the sig without hesitation (but do inform me before tomorrow, sunday 21st because I'm going on a three week holiday then, and send a PM please so I won't miss the discussion)

I think promoting a site that is politically correct on this forum is not really a problem. So you can promote seti@home. The only problem IMHO is using the word join. This makes your signature look like a commercial message (even if it isn’t).

MDeen · Post by **MDeen** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 5:51 pm

emmem wrote: I think promoting a site that is politically correct on this forum is not really a problem. So you can promote seti@home. The only problem IMHO is using the word join. This makes your signature look like a commercial message (even if it isn’t).

Fair enough. It may be concidered a bit obtrusive I guess. I've changed it a bit.

Maarten

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:46 pm

MDeen wrote: Fair enough. It may be concidered a bit obtrusive I guess. I've changed it a bit.

Let's not get carried away here. The only rule currently in place is not to advertise competing euro bill tracking sites. I think it's fairly obvious to everyone why such a rule is in place

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