I've said it before and I'll say it again - I didn't realise how addicted I was to the forums until this hacker crap happened.

I really miss our forum - am going through withdrawals! *shakes, shudders* :o

Guess I could read more but ... but ... I miss everyone and the forums!!

How could anyone think it's a 'cool' thing to do that to us peaceful and caring booklovers?! :( But we will not be defeated!!!

*off to .... hmmm .... don't know, what can I do now instead of post on the forum?*

*parades around with large placard singing*

"we shall not, we shall not be moved...
we shall not, we shall not be moved..."

Haha - love your signature MBP!! I am a believer in karma too!!

:lol: :lol:

that's the one!

Hey all... I'm here. I posted in the other forum for people to choose which they want, but I vote for this one. ;)

Thanks Missy! :kiss:

ETA: Damn! We lack smilies! :whip:

ETA: OMG!!!!!!!!! NO WHIPS!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:

It looks so much like the old one! I vote for this one, too! Easier to read! Now to get the word out!

Whoa! Deja Relay! :blink: :lol:

Morning guys!

I can't believe that vile hacker! And poor CR to have to spend his vacation sorting out all this nonsense! Ooooh -- grouch-grouch-grouch!

But thanks so much for offering your services, Missy and Sandypants! It's so very sweet of you!!! :kiss: I'm much relieved to think that everybody will still have someplace to report to for the ornament exchange and the Boxing Day Bash next week!

I vote for this one too. The popups are annoying B)

guest was me ;)

if someone has copies of the whip smilie plus any others you want, send em my way and I'll upload them!

PS - for anyone using Firefox, go grab the AdBlock extension - I've got mine set up so I can't even see the ads on here anymore! :D

I don't get it! People don't have better things to do. We should catch them and read them BOOKS on loud!!! That would probably be the worst punishment for them! I can hear their screams "Books!!! Oh NO, not books please!! Have mercy!"
Bastards!

Come on, cosmic! You KNEW, didn't you??? I knew, you HAD to know, didn't you!!!! We're ALL addicts, here, it's okay to admit it!!! :)

I promise - I didn't know!! haha :angel:

But now I do - and I can say it loud and say it proud

"I'M ADDICTED TO THE BOOKRELAY FORUM"

I am among friends and don't think I need help at all ... :rockon:

Hy I am here :thumbsup:

Yep, that's really great, I'm using it on Ebay and it's awesome...

Arghh, I was having withdrawal symptoms already :o

I wonder if we should still have the YBS #10.... I have the list of people who joined in still...

YES! We were trying to figure out who the players were in the swap forum here... I asked if you had the list.

Go there... NOW! Don't pass go! :whip: :lol:

Yes Xeyra. I am sure we all want to keep on plaing and chatting and whipping :bash:

I'll admit, the Swaps and exchanges were in my mind when I set up here - I'd imagine that Sand and Nou were the same :)

HAHA - I told Missy that Marlene would LOVE that smilie!!

Glad you proved me right - it was the first one you used Marlene!! :thumbsup:

The YBS list is up. I do keep these things. I just don't have a list of the rules. Does any of the original Swap mods have a list of the Swap rules somewhere??? Rewriting them will be a pain... Unless Shaunie has them in her site...

they should be on the swap site :)

HA! :bananadance: Damn but we're good!

Take that, you lame hacker! :bash: You can't keep us down! We're all over the place! :thumbsup:

O girls I am so happy to see your familiair faces. Tonigh when I am back home I will add my old avatar and yes cosmic, I love that smiliey

Right now I am using a notebook pc and I hate to type. It is hard, so small.
Was I the only one in tears about the second hacking? :rolleyes:

Well, I was not in crying, but I was ... lost... :blink: darn bad feeling... :( :cry:

The ornament exchange is today. I sent Turtle a PM through BC with a link to this forum, hopefully it made it through.

made it! whew...i was missin' the forum!!! thanks for the PM Xeyra, letting me know where you all were :thumbsup:

I still want to do the YBS 10 if it's still on :P

So, is everyone who celebrates ready for Christmas? I was wrapping bloody presents for hours last night cos I'm at work now until tomorrow afternoon.....

It is on. I'll post the play order Monday. We just need to determine the time. :) On the 28th we'll be there, swapping as usual. :) I'm glad you made it here. :kiss:

*phew* Xeyra, you are my hero!! I'm so glad you sent me the PM letting me know where everyone was. I've been having major withdrawal. I keep typing in bookrelay.com, forgetting about the hacker, only to be rudely reminded again. :cry:

I guess I'm as ready as I am ever going to be. I was wrapping presents late last night also. :rolleyes:

You're welcome, appa. Glad you found us. I understand all too well about withdrawal. :rolleyes:

Hugs and :kiss:

LOL appa... I was doing the same thing. THen when I saw the site was down I thought "hmmm.. I wonder what they are saying on the forums about this?" And went to type in bookrealy again :lol:... :cry: I'm glad we have this for the time being. :)

I was in shock when this hacker thing appeared on my screen. It has never happened to me before, so I thought it was a personal thing. But I see we're all in the same boat. So what happens now? Do we have to get new names, new passwords, what? :cry: :cry: :cry:

You have to register again on this forum, for now. When CR gets the new forum running, he'll let us know what to do, if we need to change anything. But for starters, register in this forum with your username (so we know it's you!) and drop in. We'll be having the YBS #10 still starting on the 28th, so we're counting on you. :) :kiss:

Random thought about the hacker...

I was trying to think of anyone who might have a grudge against the relay site, and the only person I could think of was: do any of you remember some kid posting in the relay chit-chat forum a bit ago, saying they had a book report due tomorrow on a book they hadn't read, and asking for help? "Our" response was less then what they wanted, and the kid's maturity level was about the same as the hacker...

but I guess it's probably more likely that the hacker just picked the relay site at random to harrass...

Hi all! Glad to see you all again. I never realized how much i'd miss this site until it was gone! Hope you all have nice Holidays!

Oh and Thanks to morsecode for the friendly Pm letting me know this place is here.

I contacted photobucket this evening and gave them the URL for the pornographic picture that was posted (looking at that thing for more than a couple of seconds could hypnotize you, I swear).

Hopefully they suspend his account, or even better, block his email address since he went against their terms and conditions.

thanks!

we'll be keeping our fingers crossed