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Ken makes the relevant point at 248.

Do we expect (at no cost to us members) the admin team to clear out the dross every morning so that we can access OUR site without plodding through pages of ' kai-tai adverts'. (Unless you are living in NEE-SOON or SEMBAWANG .

The collapse of the SE site happened a few years ago - admin (maybe) went on holiday for a few weeks - came back to an O2 stadium of .....well the same we get every morning - do we expect our management team to 'clear the rubbish' every day of every week !

Hang on there mates we get a great service on CLOUDOBS - behind the scenes there are some very busy ducks paddling below water without making a ripple - lets rid them of this onerous daily task !

I'm sure that "to be shure" on the internet you must have a ' security gate'. It does not make sense to be freely able to submit / comment / on PERSONAL things openly on the web.
Remember the critism 'management' got for deleting the public and very personal comments!
on one of our own seniors from Northern Ireland!
(TODAY 2013 can not be allowed on a free access site !)

Listen mates - there is no such thing on the net as 'secure' conversation (WITHOUT 'SECURITY') - you would have to be very disiplined to prevent a hacker from 'googling' a name on our site. For instance I have just 'asked' Ray Brooker - I get Sandra Brooker in Minehead - so Sandra can expect some if not a lot of hacking. (try 'RAY BROOKER Somerset) !
I first tried John Whitfield - (publican London- ) no results ! Well done JW you do not owe any VAT!
But Sandra - expect the Thai onslought ! (I only tried those two).

Hi mates I love the cloudobs site and am sure much can remain in the present PUBLIC domain. The 'FORUM' is a personal / personable site - so it must have a guarded access for the 'personal' comments (guestbook).
The few minutes it takes to establish yourself on the 'FORUM' will reduce your personal security - maybe you do the same on facebook - twitter - tweet and all those 'tings I kno nothing about (for feck sake you are metobs - you should know how to estblish an 'account')

Within the 'security' of the FORUM - maybe we can encourage a few more into the sanctum ! and enlighten, and loosen tongues etc -

Nice to see you on this again, Firstly may I wish you a belated Birthday wishes but you are just a youngster, You are lucky having gone to the Alter thrice I have collected 11 grandchilren and 3 and a bit great grandchildren so my Millions are spent.
I was going to get in touch with Ray who made the coice of staying on on Guestbook,
My Grandson is making a career of the sea training to be a Deck Officer serving on a Supply Ship to the Oil Rigs in the North Sea before returning to the Academy where the Maths Teacher is a ex Navy Forecaster, He was going to join the Andrew but 2 of his associates, 3 years older joined and not long after training got made redundant. at least he is on a Ship at Sea,
I hope that info does not go beyond the bounds of Security.

I am also back on the guestbook and though I might be a millionaire I will try to keep the whereabouts of my millions off the guestbook. I don't suppose HSBC would like it if I told everybody where I kept my ill-gotten gains.
So long as we continue to write the usual inconsequential rubbish about our time in the Andrew and whatever followed that, I am sure we will be reasonably safe.
Saturday was my 73rd birthday, though my daughter and my granddaughters insist I don't look a day over 55. (may have something to do with influencing the will writing eh?)
It's all going to the cats home girls nice try!

Cheers Ken well got there thanks to your instructions, obviously its not as easy as this to exchange comments, we will have a bash. Keep well old friend. I live 50 yds from our British Legion, The Flag is down more than up, the worrying thing is that they are younger than me.

Johnny,
Go to the forum as Ray described via the TV/Pc at the top of the guestbook page.
Click on Register, give the necessary detail, establish your own screen name and password and hey presto!
I am now in the Forum and reading all the tripe I wrote on there between 06 and 09, but there is some good shit on there if you click on the "characters" icon.

Ray, I have tried again, how can you register to the Forum, having never registered I have no password. Isnt there some way these infiltrators be blocked????
Ray if you are in the vicinity of Vilamoura Algarve in November I would certainly give you a game if I could play.
I remember you as a very young piece of skin in Admiralty, still a youngster.
Is that to Personal.

Well, I managed to get to the Forum via the little PC/TV screen at the top right of the Cloud Observers site, but was then asked for a password, etc. which I didn't know or couldn't remember - so its back to the Guest book for me. Your very aged 'bit of skin' (thanks Ken)
Ray
By the way Johnny, it looks as if we'll be on a bowling holiday on our own!

Thanks Ken for your Email on this subject, I must admit I am amazed by the amount of Email addresses of people flogging their wares.
I tried to get on Forum but all I managed to is get back to Guestbook.
To make easier for the Administrators of the site I will go along with the recommendation of the powers that be.
I truly thought the site was to find old shipmates if that involved personal dialogue then that was fine with me, I have nothing to hide except my age.

Am inclined to agree with Spud up to a point, the barrage of weirdo email addresses appearing every day must be pain in the butt for the administrators.
However, much of the stuff I append to the guestbook is inconsequential rubbish which, if it amuses the trolls is fine by me.
I would be only too willing to use the Forum if I could find the damn thing and agree that all pertinent things could be aired on there with a greater level of security.
If the administrators read this, I would appreciate instructions by email as to how I may access the Forum, and the few contributors remaining on the guestbook may appreciate the same thing!
An opinion on this subject would be welcome from Ray "the bit of skin"
Brooker and others.
I wait with baited breath!

SPUD exposed the demise of the SE SECTION website some years ago because of the total tidal of "surfing webbers of the Nee-Soon type". Now that our 'free access' guestbook site is attaining the same degree of attention daily it is surely time to pull the plug! Who for gawds sake would put personal info on this site - it is so exposed !

In this "cyber freely available" athmosphere' access to anything not password protected is exposed - our guestbook site is very vulnerable, (As in the demise of the SE website some years ago.)

I propose we ask the 'management' to suspend or even delete, within 6 months this 'open to anybody' site.

The 'FORUM' is a suitable platform to express or even renew our thoughts and memories of the past 50 years without deletion. I'm sure John Woodside would agree with this (or not) ... etc

There is a secure alternative in the FORUM - SECURE -

The Guestbook HAS a function - but it is not for personal niceities - too exposed -it should be an introduction to the METOBS - not a platform for dialogue !