I just got a really weird thing. For about ten minutes, whenever I tried to go to [link] (and all the variations with .com, .net, and no leading [link] I got redirected to this weird spam page that wanted to make [link] (I think) my homepage. I ran Spybot and it found nothing wrong. Eventually the problem vanished.
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Betsy HP - Aug 31, 2003 11:29:54 am PDT #4882 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Angus G - Aug 31, 2003 7:05:13 pm PDT #4883 of 10000
Roguish Laird
I'm assuming you didn't mistype the address, Betsy, although it would be kind of cool if we were so popular that spammers had bought up common mistypings of "Buffistas"!
Beverly - Aug 31, 2003 7:49:23 pm PDT #4884 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
It took a full 20 seconds of re-reading before I figured out that Angus wasn't talking about "misty pings," like some online form of MST2K or something.
Betsy HP - Sep 01, 2003 6:53:35 am PDT #4885 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
It was weirder than that, Angus. I'd type www.buffistas.org (my husband double-checked me) and I'd redirect to www.www.buffistas.org.com
DCJensen - Sep 01, 2003 10:43:23 am PDT #4886 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
That sounds like possibly a browser issue, but I've had similar things happen. Also a link that is perfect in a post wanting to add a buffistas.org shell around the URL.
Both eventually went away, so I never could troubleshoot.
Wolfram - Sep 02, 2003 6:27:27 am PDT #4887 of 10000
Visilurking
Just wanted to say, thanks for the threadsuck link to the homepage. The backspacing always drove me crazy.
sj - Sep 03, 2003 7:18:01 am PDT #4888 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
This really isn't that important, but I just took a look at my bookmarks and quite a few of them have dissapeared. They are blank spaces and the little delete box where they used to be.
§ ita § - Sep 03, 2003 7:19:26 am PDT #4889 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. That's probably because the threads have been archived.
I'll need to clean that up.
Rob - Sep 03, 2003 8:44:45 am PDT #4890 of 10000
Any word from our hosts about our resource usage? Did the changes help at all?
Jon B. - Sep 03, 2003 9:03:39 am PDT #4891 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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