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Subject: 
Re: Skip Filter borked?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:28:16 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
I went here

http://www.lugnet.com/news/filter/

and 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 groups in the list of groups to be skipped

Is this code not working, is there something syntactically wrong with my
string, is there something up with my browser, perhaps?

As a check I fed it
-.market. +.shopping

which is one of the sample strings on the page. Same result.

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.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
I'm getting paid for this --> alladvantage.com
Sign up via me, the reference $$ go to fund Lugnet.

Maybe you need to set "Thwip crinkle spoit" to off.



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  Re: Skip Filter borked?
 
(...) <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)
  Re: Skip Filter borked?
 
(...) 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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  Skip Filter borked?
 
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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