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Strange distance in hit

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:49 pm
by MDeen
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?

Re: Strange distance in hit

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:54 pm
by EuroBillTracker
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.

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 3:16 pm
by DoubleYou
Hey mrdeen is advertising within his signature!! That was forbidden i thought.

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 5:13 pm
by EuroBillTracker
DoubleYou wrote:Hey mrdeen is advertising within his signature!! That was forbidden i thought.
You can't advertise a competing site ;)

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 9:13 pm
by emmem
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.

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 1:41 pm
by MDeen
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? :roll:
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

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 5:08 pm
by emmem
MDeen wrote: I didn't know there was a rule for that. Can you point me to that rule please? :roll:
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).

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 5:51 pm
by MDeen
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

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:46 pm
by EuroBillTracker
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 :!: