October 2001

IBill Problems

Hi All, I just saw a news article on The Register regarding troubles at IBill. The article is here – excuse the poor title that is in the true ‘style’ of The Register. I’d just like to reassure everybody, as we use IBill for our premium subscription service, that none of our subscription options make …

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COPPA Regulations

I have today updated the new user screen, the change user details screen and our privacy policy to reflect our interpretation of the COPPA regulations by which we must abide if we wish to provide service to the USA. Its a bit late, and for that we apologise, however, even though we are a bit …

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Banning Users

We won’t ban American Users dont worry. Besides which, 80% of our users are American. Probably 50% of those are under 15 (we actually don’t know of any Americans here who are under 13 – and don’t want to, at least not yet!) The comment of banning American IP addresses was more intended to show …

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Comment Headache

OK, now I know why I wasn’t experiencing the problem and others were… Our old ad provider obviously switched themselves off today, the ones who went bust that is, because it was the ad code that was causing the delay, while it tried to connect to the ad server to get an ad. I didn’t …

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