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Here's a good one just got. It started off.... Quote: NOTE: We are not spammers and are against spamming of any kind. We are sending this mail with sole intention of link exchange for mutual benefit. If you are not intersted in Link Exchange then you can reply simply "NO", We will never contact you again. then.... Quote: Dear webmaster, We recently came across your site through Google search and your active links page indicates that you are interested in link exchange. Right! Quote: You have an excellent site and we would be delight

JA, you didn't see their site. It was one of these 'list of links with no content' sites. We often get mails from people asking for link exchanges - mostly from things like this, but sometimes from some guy who has started a one-page website that gets 4 hits a day (him, his mum, his gran and her dog) and feels that a link exchange would be mutually beneficial for him and for SnowJapan. Sometimes you just have to laugh at the preposterousness (and cheek) of it all. You might have noticed the lack of a Links page on our site. We're not scrambling around for any old meaningles

No, I think we are just going to have to continue doing things as a disservice to our users. Sorry.

We get a mountain of junk mail every day sent to our main email addresses - several thousand a day. Of course we get lots of the usual junk, but some of them are more memorable than others. Here's one we just got that made me laugh: Quote: LINK EXCHANGE REQUEST We found your website http://www.snowjapan.com and would like to exchange links with you as our sites have similar content and it would be mutually beneficial. Our site is undoubtedly one of the leading for parathyroid surgeons. Find up-to-date, straight-forward discussions of parathyroid disease and minimally i

And you of course. Lets friend.

We count you as a friend soubriquet

Thank you Mantas. Will try to keep the banging on to a minimum. But, you know, I hope this comes across but we really want this Forum to be a friendly place. A few things happened the other day and I suppose we were just feeling the need to respond to that. (Because those things were deleted, you only saw the response...) Sometimes perhaps things build up and we feel the need to get the message out. Unfortunately, when something like that does happen, an exaggerated or totally incorrect version is sometimes told to other members and we end up being the bad guys. After all,

We already use unique IPs as one of the ways of tracking and rooting out voting-spammers!

We actually have a tracking system which is able to make adjustments, taking into account people doing multiple votes (ie. they get deleted). It is never going to be 'perfect' and it would be practically impossible to stop people who really were out to make a big impact on the numbers just by trying to make it one person/one vote. If we changed it to be only-members / once-only, two things would more than likely happen: 1) people who really wanted to go in and submit multiple votes would just create different accounts and 2) there would probably be many fewer votes.

Happy Birthday!

Hi Claire and welcome to the forums. You can find lots of information about those places on these forums, using the search http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/search You can also look through the Resort Reviews section for more opinions http://www.snowjapan.com/e/voice/review.php Good luck

Hi JA No, there is no 'award scheme' for posting lots. It really doesn't really matter to us how much people post. Actually, if anything, we might be more inclined to discourage some people from posting rather than the other way round.

Quote: Ok all, just wasting server space here We might just have to start charging...

Hi everyone. Just wanted to ask people who use the forums regularly if you use the ACTIVE TOPICS feature - if you have never noticed it, you can find it on the main forums menu just under the black header above. We would be interested to hear. Thanks.

Hi al Glad to hear that you enjoyed Japan... hope you stick around!

SnowJapan Daily Now! reports from Sunday 6th April 2008: Click here to view the reports: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/archivednow.php?caldate=2008-4-6 ----------------------------- Archive Reports NOW CALENDAR (search by date) Individual report pages (latest page with links to archived reports): Niseko Now (Niseko, Hokkaido) Furano Now (Furano, Hokkaido) Hakuba Now (Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture) Shiga Kogen Now (Shiga Kogen, Nagano Prefecture) Nozawa Now (Nozawa Onsen, Nagano Prefecture) Yuzawa Now (Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture) Naeba Now (Naeba, Nii

Looks like shindo 4 in Ibaraki/Chiba areas. I felt it here in Niigata actually.

If you check the Hakuba Now page you will notice mention of some events.

Thanks for the report. Glad you enjoyed it thursday.

I'll bring this to the attention of SJ#1 and let him respond as he's in the best position to do so.

Nice report, great pics. Thanks!

The snow behind the box on the photo from late last week has now totally gone. That rain yesterday didn't help!

SnowJapan Daily Now! reports from Tuesday 18th March 2008: Click here to view the reports: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/archivednow.php?caldate=2008-3-18 Japanese snow resorts listings by current snow depth: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/A_TO_Z_ResortsSnowDepth.php Japanese snow resorts listings by "new snowfall": http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/A_TO_Z_ResortsComYesterday.php (please note: the above two pages are always displaying the "latest data") ----------------------------- Archive Reports NOW CALENDAR (search by date) Individual r

SnowJapan Daily Now! reports from Friday 14th March 2008: Click here to view the reports: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/archivednow.php?caldate=2008-3-14 Japanese snow resorts listings by current snow depth: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/A_TO_Z_ResortsSnowDepth.php Japanese snow resorts listings by "new snowfall": http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/A_TO_Z_ResortsComYesterday.php (please note: the above two pages are always displaying the "latest data") ----------------------------- Archive Reports NOW CALENDAR (search by date) Individual re

(Last few posts deleted) Can we keep the 'sex haiku' off here please. That sort of stuff does not belong here. Thank you.