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Posted on entry Smokin' spam ::: December 13, 2004, 06:39 AM:
Sadly, No! is down because of a massive spam attack.
Posted on entry So that's why... ::: December 12, 2004, 11:36 PM:
Or more properly Nordic.
Posted on entry So that's why... ::: December 12, 2004, 11:36 PM:
Not Danish, Scandinavian.
Posted on entry So that's why... ::: December 12, 2004, 10:24 PM:
Elf doesn't sound right to me either as a translation of tomte/nisse/bisse. Tomtar are eartly, not aethereal, and lives next to you, not in faerie. And tomtar are distinct from älvor or alver (and Danish equivalents I assume.) Gnomes is a better translation, I think.

The contemporary Swedish Yule gnome is pretty much identical to the anglosaxon Santa Clause I'd say, and to some extent he was from the start.
Posted on entry Die, spammers, die ::: November 16, 2004, 10:48 AM:
There are hacks that

make people go to preview before posting,
type words or codes in an extra box before posting,
forces delays between posting two comments
(the method we use, has worked splendidly so far)
closes old comments after x days

renaming mt-comments.cgi is supposed to work too.

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