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[DzM]

I will try hopping them up on sugar and handing them off to their mother tonight...

I find that offering them free puppies and giving them horns and/or drums is also a great method of my never having to worry about getting to bed on time again.

[Clash Cadillac]

Dzm, can you check the last few posts on the Streams of Seattle thread? There seems to be an issue with an image I helped Seattle post...

[DzM]

I'm sorry Clash Cadillac, but this really isn't Gir or Medusa being bad. Really. The IMG markup you're using is valid, and it's being correctly translated by Medusa into HTML markup:

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<img src="http://www.scrubbers.com/web/seattle.JPG" alt="Image">

This HTML markup tells the browsers to "Using HTTP protocol visit the machine called www.scrubbers.com and ask for the URI called /web/seattle.JPG." From there it's entirely up to the browser and www.scrubbers.com to handle the retrieval/serving of the image and correctly insert it into the Medusa page that the browser is drawing. I'm really not sure why it's failing for people on the first view. I'd bet money that it involves DNS (Domain Name Service) lookup timeout/failure on the first request.

[Clash Cadillac]

I'm sorry Clash Cadillac, but this really isn't Gir or Medusa being bad. Really. The IMG markup you're using is valid, and it's being correctly translated by Medusa into HTML markup:

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<img src="http://www.scrubbers.com/web/seattle.JPG" alt="Image">

This HTML markup tells the browsers to "Using HTTP protocol visit the machine called http://www.scrubbers.com and ask for the URI called /web/seattle.JPG." From there it's entirely up to the browser and http://www.scrubbers.com to handle the retrieval/serving of the image and correctly insert it into the Medusa page that the browser is drawing. I'm really not sure why it's failing for people on the first view. I'd bet money that it involves DNS (Domain Name Service) lookup timeout/failure on the first request.

OK, thanks I will talk to Network Solutions tomorrow...

[girlfromcountyhell]

Is this site being weird for anyone else? Or is it just that my desktop is about to die (RIP PC)...

[DzM]

Is this site being weird for anyone else? Or is it just that my desktop is about to die (RIP PC)...

I'm currently doing some major behind-the-scenes surgery. Expect rockiness for an hour or two.

[girlfromcountyhell]

Is this site being weird for anyone else? Or is it just that my desktop is about to die (RIP PC)...

I'm currently doing some major behind-the-scenes surgery. Expect rockiness for an hour or two.

Ahhhhhh, thanks! I'm out anyway...have fun with that

[Jon]

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What's that about? (posting in the Guiness thread, logged in as me)

[firehazard]

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What's that about? (posting in the Guiness thread, logged in as me)

I had one of those yesterday too. Posted in the Pirates thread. It turned up eventually.

[Clash Cadillac]

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What's that about? (posting in the Guiness thread, logged in as me)

I had one of those yesterday too. Posted in the Pirates thread. It turned up eventually.

Ditto.

[DzM]

As I said here, there is new spam prevention software running to help us manage the large (and growing) volume of attempted spam posts. Unfortunately when one automates trying to catch suspicious posts, that also automates catching legitimate posts with words that might, under other circumstances, be considered suspicious. Hence posts that match some rather broad criteria as potential spam go into a moderator queue before they go public.

To my knowledge no legitimate message has been "declined," and until the pirate thread was started only one legitimate message had even been flagged. This one was covered (at least a little) here.

[Jon]

As I said here, there is new spam prevention software running to help us manage the large (and growing) volume of attempted spam posts.

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That'd be why I missed it

Fully understand about spam posts from other places, esp. work

[DzM]

As I said here, there is new spam prevention software running to help us manage the large (and growing) volume of attempted spam posts.

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You are not authorised to access this area.

That'd be why I missed it

Fully understand about spam posts from other places, esp. work

Whoops! Teach me to copy a link while in a hurry. I pointed you at a screen in the Moderator Control Panel rather than to the actual post. Sorry about that. Try this link instead.

[IrishRover]

anyoine havoin' troiuble woith Medusa ointerface oir whatever ?
seems theres no graphoics, oi see oinly plaoin text stuff..

[Clash Cadillac]

anyoine havoin' troiuble woith Medusa ointerface oir whatever ?
seems theres no graphoics, oi see oinly plaoin text stuff..

OIrish, once in a while i get the word "'image" where a picture should be. This is usually resolved by hitting the refresh button...