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| | | I went here (URL) wanted to change my filter from +lugnet to -.loc. +.loc.us +.loc.uk +.loc.ca which seems a reasonable and legitimate setting. I have acceptance of cookies enabled. Pressing the submit button puts the entry box to +lugnet with no (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip skip filter whinging> BTW, this post showed as purple/read by me when I pressed refresh on the admin general page... before I read it! I am starting to get suspicious of my browser (NS 4.7)... (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Had you previously walked off the end of the group by clicking the link in the light blue band at the top? If so, it's correct behavior for your browser to show that URL to you in purple/read. (Not very smart behavior on the part of the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) Interesting. I fed it your string above, and didn't take when I updated. - it returned me to my old filter (-.loc. +.loc.ca -lugnet.cad -lugnet.robotics). I tried +lugnet, and it accepted it. I re-entered my old string, and it accepted it. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —James Brown
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| | | | | | | (...) <mucho snippage> (...) Odd. After reading your other post, I went back and it accepted this time. A temporary glitch? I'm using IE4.0, if it helps to know. James (URL) getting paid for this --> alladvantage.com Sign up via me, the reference $$ (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Wow, that is wicked bizarre. Unless your browser is being sent the wrong cookie somehow (I doubt it!) it sounds like a horrible browser bug. It would help me know what cookie your browser thinks it's being sent. For example, if I type in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Kevin Salm
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| | | | | | (...) I do not know for sure if Todd has set up the syntax to work without the prefix lugnet before a specific heirarchy or group in the filter, but my filter has worked each time I have changed it. I have included the prefix lugnet for all groups (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) What cookie text does your browser say is being sent to it? (It should show you in a confirmation dialog if you have the confirm-cookies option enabled.) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) For this string: -.loc. +.loc.us +.loc.ca +.loc.uk from within NS I get: NEWSGROUPFILTER=-.lo...%2B.loc.uk However, the water is muddy because I have both IE and NS running at the same time (my mem just got boosted to 320M so I can do that, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) OK, looks correct. (...) You have two differently branded browsers running which share the same cookie jar? (Or am I misunderstanding?) I always thought that MSIE and NN had totally separate cookies and couldn't interfere with each other. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) No. At least not that I know of. (...) I think so. Plus I poorly worded. Mostly it was ME that was confused. Let's review the steps (independent of any browser). I go to the skip setting page. your server asks my browser for a cookie. if it (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Almost -- the default value is actually -.off-topic. -.admin. but that's most likely not relevant to the problem you're seeing. (...) Bizarre. I wonder if it might be thinking that www.lugnet.com doesn't match .lugnet.com ? (It's supposed to, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Susan Hoover
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| | | | | | (...) Ah, but do they really match? In (URL), you (Todd) wrote: (...) "any server in the domain .lugnet.com" is not necessarily the same as "the originating server", which is www.lugnet.com, correct? Can you possibly alter your cookie so it is being (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm, probably not, but I'm not sure how browsers interpret the "only to the originating server" phrase... A browser -could- (and I would think should) remember that a ".foo.bar" cookie came from "www.foo.bar" if it was going to place (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Skip Filter borked? —Susan Hoover
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| | | | | | (...) Try this (basic info for users): (URL) and this (info for web developers): (URL) and a spec: (URL) Disclaimer: I've never created a web site that sent cookies. :-) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Factoring —Dave Jost
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| | | | Back factoring yet??? all the moving done?? I got some $$ to mail/send you sometime in the next two weeks.. Regards Dave (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Factoring —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) ??? Whom are you addressing? --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Factoring —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Prolly me, and prolly meant to be an email. ++Lar (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Factoring —Dave Jost
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| | | | YEP an big ERR on my part... sorry for the confusion... lemme try this again... Dave Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:FsKn25.Mr3@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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