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Well boys, surprise surprise, a mealy mouthed non answer, and they won't be taking off the rip-off tax either. Here it is. Petition to: Fuel duty reduction, now VAT has increased to 17.5%, please deduct the duty which was levied when vat was reduced to 15%. This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Fuel duty reduction, now VAT has increased to 17.5%, please deduct the duty which was levied when vat was reduced to 15%. More details Submitted by David Powell – Deadline to sign up by: 12 March 2010 – Signatures: 170,377 More details from petition creator When vat was reduced to 15% in January '09 your chancellor levied an extra 2p per litre of...

If you receive spam via pm please can you click the report triangle on the right hand side of the message and then just delete or ignore it. The latest user to be sending these pm's is 'Serendipity'. They have been banned but I don't know how many of you receieved pm's prior to them being shown the door. Cheers.

Every now and again we outgrow our hardware, that time is once again upon us. Next week we will be moving to another server, this time one which will be easier to upgrade and expand from. There will probably be around 6-7 hours downtime and slowdowns as backups are made and the new server is ramped up... So if you turn up and get no response then you will know why!

right as yer know wi lost mi ma in november 2009 and during her last few months she was resident in a marie curie hospice she was only 56 and it was a real blow but the people at marie curie where great and they do it all for nowt and thier facilitys run at a loss the only help they get from the govt is they dont pay for prescription drugs for thier termanilly ill patients to try to say thank you my dad has decided to walk the west highland way The West Highland Way, Milngavie, Fort William, Walking in Scotland ive been roped in and so has mi father in law we leave on saturday and would ask fer a penny a mile for the 96 mile at the very least pm me fer me fer details of how to donate yer sponsership money via paypal or direct ter...

Please can all Landyzoners be aware that if they receive an email or pm from 'security team' OR 'security analyst' or any other similar user names or group names or if they see a post from any of the above, they are spammers and they are trying to get you to click on an 'alleged' anti virus link. It is a virus of some kind. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Please can you use the 'report post' tab so that we can delete them, before they delete your hard drives. Thankyou.:)

As most of you will have noticed there have been a few user name changes recently. To be honest changing user names is something that i tried to avoid from day 1 because i'm pretty sure that in doing so i'm making a rod for my own back. Doing it for one may well just open the flood gates buy hey ho, one rule for all as they say. So those who have requested user name changes, I will try to get them done today ( i'm GMT +8 hrs at the mo though) Either way there are going to have to be some boundaries, anyone who has made a genuine mistake signing up, then fine i will change them no problem, but long term members are going to have to have a note in there title saying who they formally were. Changing the name of a regular poster could...

Ok chaps ive got round to doing the engines forum. Ive tried to set them up how i think is sensible. ie series engines in one forum, cos i can't see them being overly busy. Anyway have a look and feel free to offer advise on any changes. I will probably tell you to **** off but you can try:D

We seem to be inundated with reports of stolen landy's at the moment. Just wondering whether to make a 'stolen' section within general chat. That way people can have there own threads, and in effect the most recent ones will be much more visible to those who want to read and help. What does everyone think?

Just thought i'd make a quick point about the Email notifications for P.M's on the site. When anyone receives an email from us there is a big notice on them that says PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. However it seems that people do so anyway. Although i love reading all the miss sent P.M's you should know that by replying to the email, your chosen recipient doesn't recieve the message, therfore they probably think that you are ignorant gits for not replying:D As said this aint a problem for me but it needs pointing out so that your messages go where you want them to. Hope this makes sense peeps:doh:

As you are all aware, The ability to take the **** and have the **** taken out of each other is widly accepted on this forum. People come onto this forum to socialise and to ask for help when needed. It has been noted that just recently when people are asking for help they are being barraged with comments and posts that are neither helpful nor constructive. It is one thing to take the micky out of a well established member who you may know. It is a different ball game when it comes to a newcomer asking for help and being told where to get off or what he or she should do with their choice of vehicle We do not wish to discourage banter but please can you try and reserve it where possible for the general forums rather than the vehicle...

I have just upgraded the forum software. Not quite finished yet there are a few bugs to iron out. Let me know in this thread if something isn't quite how it should be and have a look out for the new features (something to do with social groups, but I'm not fully sure myself yet)!

Contrary to common belief last night was NOT about heavy handed modding. It was about keeping deliberate SPAM off Landyzone. Last night happened because members of another site decided they were going to make a seemingly innocent question up and then answer it with a link to their site. DESPITE WHAT IS BEING DENIED ELSEWHERE THE PERSON LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WAS AN ALTER EGO OF THE SAME PERSON HE HIMSELF WAS LOOKING FOR. That is all that needs to be known. They were dealt with in the same way that any other spammer is dealt with. WE DO NOT LIKE BANNING PEOPLE AND DO NOT WANT TO BAN PEOPLE. PLEASE DON'T MAKE US HAVE TO CONTINUE.

Hello I'm Andrew, I'll be helping with some of the behind the scenes technical running of the site. We're looking to update the collection of smilies on LZ to make them more fun. If you have seen some smilies that you'd like us to have, please post them in this thread. Cheers!

I am getting many reports that people are using the PM system to spam other members about other websites. We don't usually have a problem with people putting links in sigs or linking to relevant material on other websites, but using landyzones bandwidth for outright spamming is a bit out of order. Any reports up to now have been disregarded, but from now on anyone PM spamming or blatently spamming in the forum will be slapped on the wrists If anyone wants any advice about how to gain visits to other websites without spamming, then feel free to PM me.

we at admin control center are currently tidying up LZ, with a view to upgrading stuff. so can yer not stick 'for sale' ads in the general forum sections. there is a 'for sale ' section so can y'all use it?

If you are reading this it means you've found your way onto the new server. Hopefuly she should be a little more stable and speedier. Have Fun!

You may have noticed some downtime of the forum in the last few weeks. This is due to the large amount of traffic the forum is now getting. I have been tweaking the server but at the end of the day it's time for new hardware. I've ordered a new server which should be available this weekend and should solve the downtime problems and increase the speed of the site. Its an uber super server with octoprocs and gigabananas and scsi's and flashy lights. Only problem is it costs a bloody fortune. I'm not one to normally beg, but most any forum(especially big ones) usually have a donation section so users can help to pay for the costs involved in keeping us running. We've got thousands of visitors to this site every day and if only a few...

Found this out from the plod: From the 15th February 08 all the Speed Cameras in the Variable Speed Limit section of the M25 near Heathrow Airport (JCT 10-15) are going Digital and the activation limit is being lowered. They are currently the older film type cameras and Set at 90mph when the Variable Limit Signs are not in operation. The new digital cameras are going to be set at the normal 10% 0f the speed limit + 2mph (80mph + and you're taking a risk basically) when the signs are not in use i.e. national speed limit. I can't confirm the activation limit when the signs are set (variable limits showing) but believe it would be the same 10% + 2mph of the speed shown by the sign at that time.

Well here we go again. Once again i shal try to do the right thing, i'm really quite touched by the ammount of support a lot of you have for yella. Even though you all have your own oppinion about whats happened, so do I. I have spoken to yella this morning and i think we both know where we stand. I'm not about to pour it out over the forums however. I realise i probably made a pretty rash decission yesterday but when things are going a bit mad it's hard to see all the facts. What i saw ****ed me off a little and i'm now thinking i should have put the swear filter on right from the start. Shame on me for thinking the forum could go on without it. So saying that the swear filter is now on and hopefully that should help. Anyway as far as...

Thought it was about time i made a post about all the recent goings on with language etc. As i'm sure everyone is aware, especialy regulars, at Landyzone we have taken a different approach to bad language than other LR forums. Up until recently i think it's gone pretty well. Since we've had some new moderators things seem to have changed a little, whether that is just a coincidence or not i'm not sure. Either way there has only ever been one guide line, and that has been to keep harsh language off the main forums. (if anyone wishes to know what they are PM, don't use this as an excuse to use them). Something that you don't mind might easily offend others. My feeling now, is that people are beginning to take the **** a little to see how...