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Mar 14^th, 2004 at 4:42pm

aeronut Ex Member

I was recently contacted by a disabled war veteran who was somewhat viciously rebuked by a SimV administrator(By private E Mail) for displaying a correctly sized RAF Bomber Command Avatar.
May I suggest some guidelines as to which Avatars are acceptable for the benefit of future members
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Aeronut

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Reply #1 - Mar 14^th, 2004 at 4:57pm

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Hi Aeronut. I can't speak for the "SimV administrator" concerned but personally can see no objection to a Bomber Command avatar, providing the image was in the correct JPG format & within the size limit.
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Please keep PERSONAL avatars (logo under your name) less than 10K & 100 pixels wide

I consider it highly unlikely that anyone officially connected with this site would send a vicious E-mail to anyone. Are you sure this was genuine? Who sent this E-mail? There's a lot of weird people out there these days.

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Reply #2 - Mar 15^th, 2004 at 1:22pm

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??? Who would that be?

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Reply #3 - Mar 15^th, 2004 at 3:20pm

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I don't see why anyone would have a problem, I've been flying the RAF ensign for about 6 months 8)

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Reply #4 - Mar 15^th, 2004 at 3:45pm

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This doesn't sound right. I think someone has produced a spoof email address. Pete would be the only person who could do this, and he certainly wouldn't.

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Reply #5 - Mar 15^th, 2004 at 4:05pm

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Maybe this explains it. http://www.simviation.com/security.html
I've received mail only this week from 'admin@simviation.com' with an attachment. This is not a genuine address to my knowledge & the attachment is most likely a virus. Not sure if they're abusive as I delete them without reading them.

PS. There are genuine @simviation addresses - I have one myself. If you receive unexpected mail from anyone mail the sender & ask if they mailed you before opening them.

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Reply #6 - Mar 16^th, 2004 at 12:33am

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I think Hagar has got it right...I've recieved a number of similar emails myself...SimV, Avsim, NoNodes...

Deleted the webmaster @simv without reading...wrong size and it came to a new email addy I had set up...Pete has my old addy that still works.

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Reply #7 - Mar 16^th, 2004 at 5:00am

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I was recently contacted by a disabled war veteran who was somewhat viciously rebuked by a SimV administrator(By private E Mail) for displaying a correctly sized RAF Bomber Command Avatar.
May I suggest some guidelines as to which Avatars are acceptable for the benefit of future members
Regards
Aeronut

aeronut - Like the others have said - this can not be a genuine case. We just don't do that.

There are clear guidelines about avatars, etc, in the signup agreement.

I see you have resigned yourself as a member. This would seem to be a clear case of wrong information being taken seriously.

As always in life - we should always try to establish facts before coming to conclusions. 8)

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Reply #8 - Mar 16^th, 2004 at 2:09pm

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Okay, read that... I have a few q's about the membership. Whens it coming out, any ideas how much and how can we Brits pay? Thanks Pete,
Dan G Wink

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