This is the recovered Machine Room from 2005. Please don't expect wonders. The look and feel of this site is nine years
old, and so is its code. Some of the functionality has been recovered while the rest of
the site is modernised and restructured. Watch this space!
The Machine Room's privacy policy is made clear by the following points.
- I hate spam.
- There is no mailing list on this site, so no mass mailings. This may change,
but it will be an explicitly opt-in mailing list. Not what spammers call
opt-in, obviously.
- I do not share people's particulars with others.
- I hate spam.
- The site is regularly backed up on tape. These tapes are encrypted with strong
cryptography on the fly.
- Your password is not stored anywhere on the site. We use digest
algorithms to store 'fingerprints' of the passwords and compare those.
- The site uses cookies (if you want it to). Read the cookie policy.
- Ah hate spammy wabbits.
- Logs are used for statistical purposes, and those only for my own use.
- These logs are standard Apache web server logs and record your IP
address. Not your username, name, office number, phone number, height or
shoe size. Quite frankly, I don't care to know such details.
- I hate spam.
- The site asks for your email address when you sign up. This
is for validation purposes, and so I can contact you if there's
something seriously wrong with your account, the site, or
both. I don't pass addresses out to third parties and I make a
good effort to hide email addresses on the site, even when
they're meant to be displayed.
- Although you give the site your email address, you must
explicitly say if you want your address shown to other users (and even then, it
will be mangled to thwart spambots). This is
opt-in, i.e. your address is not shown by
default, not even in a mangled form.
- I really, really hate spam. But not as much as I hate spammers.
- That having been said, try to abuse, crack or otherwise disrupt this site and
people will be notified of this, and I will definitely give them your
particulars in that case. Depending on where you are, crack attacks may be construed
as an act of terrorism by authorities looking for evil internet scapegoats on a
daily basis. Are you sure you want to risk it?