My Lamma Weekly E-zine

**Deadline:** Dec 31, 2002

My Lamma Photo Contest

Ad Poster for our new contest. Click for wallpaper-size...

Table of Contents:

Editorial
E-mails to the Editor
Best of the Week
About My Lamma
Next Week

Photo Contest Launched!
DickStock Photo Comix
Hell's Angels Bikers of Lamma!
Fertility Island?
Anti-poison for Cats
Lamma Funday posters
"Are you all smoking crack?"
Local Laudable Luminaries

Editorial:

Hello to all of Lamma's professional, amateur & wannabe photographers!

Our big new contest has just been launched!

Send us your best Lamma-related photos, win prizes from local sponsors and get your work showcased as "Photo of the Week/Month" on My Lamma and in a local venue!

My Lamma had its first official moderator meeting recently at the Deli Lamma! A good time was had by all (webdog, Lamma-Gung, BBChris, e, plus Lamma-Po and Mrs. webdog), thanks to the two huge pitchers of Sangria donated by webdog, rewarding the moderators for Lamma.com.hk reaching over 160 registered members and 2,000 messages. Thank you, webdog!

I'll do another printed My Lamma ad flyer (similar to the DickStock Special Edition: Music on Lamma), to be distributed at the Lamma Funday!

Maybe even a My Lamma T-shirt? Would YOU buy one for charity?

We need more active moderators! It's very little work, basically just keeping an eye on your forum, occasionally answering a question. In exchange, you get to play god in your forum, change, censor and even kill messages at will (but not obnoxious members)! Let me know if there's even the faintest possibility that you might be interested in moderating someday!

Cheers from Lamma-Gungan

(Attack of the Clones is now available on DVD, so Star Wars fan pit has renamed me...)

E-mails to the Editor:

Farmer Eo (last week's "Lamma Website of the Week"):

Thank you very much~ keep up your good work

Norseman (new & very active member):

Unfortunately many people aren't aware of the website but, once they have checked it, are hooked.
You have a good site going which embodies the spirit of the island and there are some great discussions going, particularly the cyclists and VV's and the restaurant reviews. It would be a shame to think that it is not getting the attention it deserves. Good work, keep it up!

webdog (Site Admin):

What can I say, your e-zine work is approaching the quality of art!
Please accept my bows! {9 bowing smileys}

e (moderator of LAP forum):

just read the latest issue of the e-zine and noted that the topic about bikers and drivers is the hottest topic so far. do I get a prize for starting this topic?
love your e-zine (so does mr 3)

k@ (moderator of Lamma Oldsters forum):

I have no feedback on your online zine. It is fine as it is.
I read the stuff of interest to me and not the stuff that wasn't.

Best of the Week:

• Quote

zep (commenting on "can drivers and bikers slow down"):

Jeez! Full blown road rage on Lamma, complete with veiled threats of violence and all. If Leggo's dreams are disturbed by the Ding Ding Ding of evil bicycles in our haven of love, peace and tolerance, is there anywhere safe left in the world?

• Website

www.LynnPretty.com

Mr. Tough's wife, a NET teacher, has a really great teacher's website, targeted at pupils, parents, friends and HK-newbies alike.

Full of education resources, photos, stories and games, this is a fine example on how a website can make the very tough life of a HK NET teacher a little easier.

Well done, Mrs. Tough!

New regular feature this week!

I'll feature the "Best of the Week" quotes, topics, new usernames, Lamma Website, website stats and other highlights:
For more Lamma-related websites:

Lamma.com.hk/forum/Lamma-Gung/Lamma-Links.htm

• Username

Our latest, clever member, #166, found out that special characters are allowed in usernames, simply registering as a full stop: .
(click the dot for more details about him/her/it...)

I wonder what we should call this new member? Remember the long-ago-abandoned ad campaign for Sun computers:
"We're the Dot in Dotcom"?

About My Lamma:

• Traffic

Last month, we averaged per day: over 8,000 hits, almost 1,500 page views and 127 visitors! We transferred over 1,700 MB to our visitors in October, adding up to over a quarter of a million hits.

We've had visitors from 29 countries last month, incl. Mauritius (I wonder why?)

The e-zine page is now in the Top 10 of most popular pages...

If you're interested in more details (but why would you be?), see the traffic chart below.

• Message #2000

It was posted, from the prolific #1 message poster:

Lamma-Gung (Nov 19, 18:11, topic "Demographic study on Lamma-ites"):

How did we get from this Sex Poll to South Park?

Everybody's posting messages here, why not vote in the completely anonymous poll? We can't find out who voted for what age, so no reason to be embarrassed about it! Just be honest, nobody will ever know!

Daily usage for October 2002 I'll also post my 500th message very soon.
This means that almost every 4th message is from yours truly! Yes, I know... it must be getting boring...
I'll try to be less prodigious from now on and focus more on creating this very time-consuming e-zine.

But we need more active message posters to step in! Don't be shy! Anything that might be of interest to at least one person (besides yourself!) can be posted, (almost) any-thing goes!

• Search engines

People are finding Lamma.com.hk more and more via search engines. Usually, they input search words like "lamma", "dickstock", "yung shue wan", but also more "unusual" phrases like: "bongo ladies online", "attack hamster", "sexy avatars" and "chinese vampire gallery".

Hmmm, I wasn't aware that we HAVE a "chinese vampire gallery"!

• Hacking threat

Last but not least, a warning e-mail reached us this week:

webdog's friend:

Your site is probably about to be hacked and taken down.

recommend you quickly upgrade the phpbb to the latest version if you haven't already...the other sites out there on the net using the same system are dropping like flies as some idiot has made a program to crack and then destroy them. latest edition of phpbb fixes this.

Fortunately, we've upgraded already long ago. But we'll continue to be vigilant, improving our safety and security further, doing frequent backups, making sure that our members have a reliable and safe place to read/post their messages!