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It's happened again. I post, I send, nothing appears on the message board. This is endemic, so I'm quarantining myself It's not worth me using doc2doc if it works this badly. I'll look in again f
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Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 7:57 AM BST
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It's happened again. I post, I send, nothing appears on the message board. This is endemic, so I'm quarantining myself It's not worth me using doc2doc if it works this badly. I'll look in again from time to time and hope that things get better. Bye John |
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Re: Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 8:55 AM BST
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Hi John, I totally agree that this is extremely frustrating. I really care about what I post. Hence, if they are lost; there is no point writing it again. I went to see your profile and I see you have currently two posts lost:  How is it happening? I have already sent these files to doc2doc admin...last week or so. I am pretty sure that there are hundreds of posts are lost. I went to my profile updates and just backtracked for few sessions. Just to give you a preview, there are more than 30 posts lost very recently !!! This is something very serious. Given the nature of this kind of serious flaw and I already updated; it has not been corrected yet !!! Posts_Lost_1  Posts_Lost_2  Posts_Lost_3  Posts_Lost_4  This is the series I just backtracked.... 'A symbol with profile crossed and writtent 'Name Withheld: This activity is under review.'' is a sign that the post is not there!!! |
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Re: Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 10:51 AM BST
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Hi John and Mati Sorry to see these problems are persisting. I am currently on annual leave and will look at this on Monday first thing. Apologies that this can't be sorted out sooner but thanks for sending the screenshots. My suspicion is -ironically- that this may have something to do with the anti-spam filter we fitted to prevent the recent spate of spam we have been experiencing. This is frustrating because the people who we want to see posting and contributing are unable to. This is my priority and will try to look into it when I am back home and near my laptop! |
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Re: Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 11:57 AM BST
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In Response to Goodbye: It's happened again. I post, I send, nothing appears on the message board. This is endemic, so I'm quarantining myself It's not worth me using doc2doc if it works this badly. I'll look in again from time to time and hope that things get better. Bye John Posted by John D John, I hope your absence is short. Since I have been a member you have been an essential part of this site. Hopefully the gremlins will be sorted. I must say I have no such probblems so I don't have any idea what is causing such problems, Regards, Kirked |
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Re: Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 12:47 PM BST
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Sorry to see you go John. I have only been on this site a short while but I can already see that you are a valued member of the site and so it will be sad to see you leave. However, I understand the frustrations when forums dont work properly.....personally, I have not encountered these issue since I have been here but maybe I don't post enough to notice or I need to be here longer to notice it. Anyway, take care and hope you return to the forum soon (once the problems have been fixed). @ mbillingsley: I wouldn't be surprised to hear that your anti-spam filter is causing these issues. I have seen the effects of these filters on numerous forums in the past and usually they just need a slight tweaking as they are, invariably, set up to be a bit too aggressive on their filtering. Hope you get it fixed soon before more people leave due to it
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Re: Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 4:27 PM BST
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John, Please do not leave, You are the Very Glue that holds Doc to Doc together. Who else can Push me to greater heights of academic research than you. This will get fixed. STAY!!! DuaneF In Response to Goodbye: It's happened again. I post, I send, nothing appears on the message board. This is endemic, so I'm quarantining myself It's not worth me using doc2doc if it works this badly. I'll look in again from time to time and hope that things get better. Bye John Posted by John D |
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Re: Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 4:29 PM BST
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Matthew, I spoke to my Army Friend, he is now a Computer Network Engineer at Raytheon, and he is virtually 100% sure it is the Spam filter causing the problems, This is a problem everywhere, DOD agencies in usa have it all the time, hence they have people to sort through spam emails. DUaneF In Response to Re: Goodbye: Hi John and Mati Sorry to see these problems are persisting. I am currently on annual leave and will look at this on Monday first thing. Apologies that this can't be sorted out sooner but thanks for sending the screenshots. My suspicion is -ironically- that this may have something to do with the anti-spam filter we fitted to prevent the recent spate of spam we have been experiencing. This is frustrating because the people who we want to see posting and contributing are unable to. This is my priority and will try to look into it when I am back home and near my laptop! Posted by mbillingsley |
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Re: Goodbye
posted at 22/9/2012 5:17 PM BST
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Thanks for the info Duane. I am going to lodge a ticket with our technology suppliers to help remove this new filter. Thee main man in our internal Technology department is currently on annual leave but I am sure we can resolve this quickly if it is a matter of removing the filter. We will then look at alternatives and I will keep a vigilant eye on any spam that appears and manually remove it in the meantime. |
