New Error Message

[Pillager]

Here's one to add to "Server is Busy" or "The Administrator has blocked your IP Address"...

It's the first time I've seen it. Does anyone get it regularly, so to speak?

 

[Zwelgje]

I've had that message too a few times, don't know what it means...

 

[Pillager]

I assume it's a misreading of the cookies by the site?

 

[Padma]

I get that one several times a day - usually when voting on a poll. I just retry a few times and it takes it.

Don't know what really causes it, though.

 

[Chieftess]

Same here. It usually happens when my cookie expires... and I have to log in again.

 

[gonzo_for_civ]

Don't use aol to browse, if you do you will get that error.

When it happens in IE, however, you can try again and it will usually work.

Again, DO NOT USE AOL TO BROWSE!!!!!

 

[Pillager]

Urrgh. I wouldn't use AOL if you paid me.

Well, I might. If you paid me a lot. But I wouldn't like it. Unless you paid me loads. Anyway, I don't like AOL, and I don't use it.

 

[BCLG100]

never happens to me normally just get the usual server is too busyt message

 

[gonzo_for_civ]

The only time it usually happens is if you edit a post, but instead of hitting ok you hit back...for some reason this seems to upset aol.

 

[Padma]

Well, gonzo, I don't use AOL, just straight IE5.5 or Opera 6/05. I see the message when I click the "Vote" button on a poll, almost never any other time (and not always then).

 

[hbdragon88]

It happens to me a lot, sometimes by AOL (stop blaming them!) or by something to do with cookies. What I don't get is if you cookie expires, then why can you still post but not vote in polls? At least, that's how it works for me.

 

[Switch625]

I have never seen that error before. I've never had it happen to me.

 

[Ohwell]

"The Administrator has blocked your IP Address"...

Naughty dog you!

AOL sucks, don't use it.

 

[Pillager]

Yes, I was waiting for someone to pick up on that

I think TF had got trigger happy, and my ISP chose an IP from a range that had been banned.

I wasn't banned, honest! I've even got TF's PM to prove it

 

[hbdragon88]

What would be the intention on blocking a wide range of IP addresses anyhow? I don't understand why TF would block an ISP range.

 

[Strider]

Never used AOL.... My netscape has given me very few problems

 

[Octavian X]

I've never seen that message, though I've seen some weird ones in my day...

It's never appeared when I used IE, and never appears now that I use Opera.

 

[Portuguese]

Opera?

Sometimes, to me appeared a white screen saying to contact technical staff. Is that usual or normal?

 

[Pillager]

Yeah, that just means the server is busy - too many connections, etc. You mean the screen that mentions MySQL, right?

Haven't had that since the latest ameliorations

 

[Chieftess]

I always stay a mile away from AOL. I'd stay 100 miles away, but unfortunately, AOL is just about that far away!