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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted June 19, 2008 02:52 AM

On 16th June I posted "Printing A Topic." I explained that my "Print Preview" would not display it correctly, although when I tried to print it did indeed print out OK and all the pictures came out well.

Seeing the posting with some super pictures "GS-1200 Sound Flutter" I selected "Printer-friendly view of this topic" and then went straight to printer. It printed 9 pages but when I took the paper from the out tray I discovered that none of the very useful pictures had printed.

In their place were (the same) pictures of an out-of-focus face just showing the eyes and nose with the following comment:-

ILLEGAL PICTURE!!!
The piece of shit who tried to post a picture here is
illegally STEALING bandwidth from another web server!

I am not a piece of shit. I demand an apology from the Forum.

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Maurice

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John Clancy
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1954
From: Cornwall
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 19, 2008 03:24 AM

Any chance of having this thread removed? It's rather offensive and not really the sort of thing we usually have on here.

Maurice, the reason that offensive rubbish comes up is due individual firewall settings.

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted June 19, 2008 03:40 AM

John

Thanks very much.

My computer says "Firewall setting is off." My Norton program recommends it.

Do I assume this is nothing to do with the Forum? If so, I apologise.

Any more help on this will be much appreciated.

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Maurice

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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 19, 2008 04:07 AM

Hello Maurice

I had the same problem some time back and it turned out to be due to my firewall settings. Not being a computer wiz I can’t advise you how to reset things to stop it happening, though I’m sure some one will.

It’s apparently to do with a mechanism in the programme designed to stop people using automated programmes to register on to forums and start threads up with advertising material in them.

Have to agree with you it is a bit of a shock when you see it on your screen! [Eek!]

Mike

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 525
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 19, 2008 04:38 AM

That is an old problem that was hard-coded into the forum software. To be honest, the problem was so many years ago that I cannot even remember what the exact situation was that it was intended to fix other than it was related to porn sites abusing the picture upload feature of the website and in essence, having me pay for their bandwidth.

The downside is that if your firewall is incorrectly configured, you get that message (but the rest of the world sees the proper picture). Sorry about that. At some point in the future we may change software, provided there is a reliable way to archive all of the existing posts.

BTW, this belongs in the Yak forum. Moving.....

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Douglas Meltzer
Moderator

Posts: 4554
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 19, 2008 06:20 PM

Maurice,

The title of your post bothered me, so I've altered it. And since I had that reaction, I can only imagine what yours was when you discovered what had printed up. Along with Brad, I'd like to apologize for what was originally meant to discourage bandwidth thievery.

Doug

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted June 20, 2008 07:09 AM

Brad and Doug

Many thanks. You're the best.

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Sam J. Clarke
Junior
Posts: 28
From: Newcastle, England
Registered: May 2008

posted June 20, 2008 08:13 AM

quote:
That is an old problem that was hard-coded into the forum software. To be honest, the problem was so many years ago that I cannot even remember what the exact situation was that it was intended to fix other than it was related to porn sites abusing the picture upload feature of the website and in essence, having me pay for their bandwidth.

You could change the software to only do it if the person has referrers enabled (I always have them disabled and have to enable them to see pictures) and that way people without them will see the image as well as people with them.

The only downside is that if people don't have them enabled they will see the image on other sites, but most people won't post them on other sites because the people who have them enabled will see the evil message.

Sam

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Dan Lail
Film God